Contingent Faculty across the Disciplines

Autor/in	Jacobe, Monica F.
Titel	Contingent Faculty across the Disciplines
Quelle	In: Academe, 92 (2006) 6, S.43-49 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0190-2946
Schlagwörter	School Surveys; College Faculty; Tenure; Employment Practices; Job Security; Employment Patterns; Higher Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fakultät; Amtszeit; Beschäftigungsdauer; Berufspraxis; Arbeitsplatzsicherheit; Beschäftigungsstruktur; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen
Abstract	This article reports the findings of a 1999 survey conducted by the Coalition on the Academic Workforce (CAW), a group of higher education and disciplinary associations concerned about the dramatic rise in contingent faculty, to examine the staffing practices across eleven humanities and social science disciplines. The comprehensive report showed a growing use of contingent faculty in most disciplines--but it also revealed inequality between part- and full-time contingent professors. Full-time faculty participated in departmental decision making and received support for professional development almost across the board, while part-time faculty saw little of these benefits, to say nothing of access to health insurance and technology. In this article, the author discusses what professional associations can do to help contingent faculty better their individual positions in the profession. The author also contends that more vigilance, altered awareness, and current and complete data are needed to maintain a productive conversation about the constantly changing academic labor force. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10