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Statement on the Status and Working Conditions of Contingent Faculty
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Palmquist, Mike; Doe, Sue; McDonald, James; Newman, Beatrice Mendez; Samuels, Robert; Schell, Eileen – College English, 2011
In this paper, the authors call for an approach that, in recognizing the economic realities facing most institutions, attempts to put aside objections that funding is simply not available to support an expansion of the current tenure system. In calling for the changes in faculty working conditions, the authors recognize that change will…
Descriptors: Tenure, Position Papers, College Faculty, Adjunct Faculty
Writing as Outsiders: Academic Discourse and Marginalized Faculty.
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Cayton, Mary Kupiec – College English, 1991
Explores the conditions that have given rise to the current reliance on non-tenure-track employment and how the attempts to deal with these conditions on an ad hoc basis has resulted in a broad spectrum of temporary and part-time situations. (PRA)
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, English Instruction, Higher Education, Nontenured Faculty
Comment and Response.
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College English, 1985
Three critics comment on M. Elizabeth Wallace's October l984 "College English" article, "The Richness of Language and the Poverty of Part-Timers: Impact and Invisibility," and Wallace responds. (EL)
Descriptors: College English, Educational Theories, English Instruction, Higher Education
The Richness of Language and the Poverty of Part-Timers: Impact and Invisibility.
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Wallace, M. Elizabeth – College English, 1984
Reviews recent studies on the plight of part-time faculty at the college level and attempts to achieve a perspective that fits the treatment of part-time teachers into an overall scheme. (CRH)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Employment Experience, Higher Education, Job Satisfaction