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Frontczak, Deirdre – Liberal Education, 2021
Non-tenure-track (NTT) faculty--typically contingent faculty hired on fixed-term contracts--know that budgets tightened during the pandemic likely mean fewer jobs, with little or no hope of professional advancement. Cost-conscious administrators often resist extending benefits to such instructors or look to trim those already in place, leaving…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Nontenured Faculty, Fringe Benefits, Tenure
American Association of University Professors, 2023
This report concerns the nonrenewal of the part-time appointment of Professor Erika López Prater at Hamline University after a student complained of having been offended by Professor López Prater's presentation of two images of the Prophet Muhammad during an online session of her art history class. The report also examines related matters…
Descriptors: Tenure, Academic Freedom, College Faculty, Part Time Faculty
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Heil, John-Paul; McGinley, Stephen – Journal of Catholic Higher Education, 2021
As higher education emerges from COVID-19 restrictions, the post-pandemic transitional moment provides Catholic institutions the opportunity to reconsider their reliance on adjuncts in core curricula. As tenure-track positions decline nationwide and universities increasingly source out coursework to temporary or part-time adjuncts and other…
Descriptors: Catholics, Religious Factors, Religious Colleges, College Faculty
American Association of University Professors, 2020
This report, prepared by the Association's staff, concerns the case of Dr. Jane Harty, a part-time faculty member with forty years of service in the Department of Music at Pacific Lutheran University (PLU). In November 2018, Dr. Harty was suspended from her teaching responsibilities for the remainder of her one-year contract and informed that she…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Universities, Part Time Faculty, Music Education
American Association of University Professors, 2018
This report concerns actions taken by the administration of University of Nebraska-Lincoln to suspend lecturer, Courtney Lawton from her teaching responsibilities--initially, for stated safety concerns. Lawton is a sixth-year doctoral student with a part-time appointment as lecturer for the 2017-18 academic year. She received threats after a video…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Tenure, College Faculty, Teacher Dismissal
American Association of University Professors, 2017
This report concerns actions taken by the administration of the Community College of Aurora, during the fourth week of the fall 2016 semester, to terminate the appointment of part-time instructor of philosophy, Nathanial Bork, without affordance of academic due process. Mr. Bork was dismissed after conveying his intention to send to the college's…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Tenure, Community Colleges, College Faculty
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Jones, Glen A. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2013
Academic work has become increasingly fragmented. The horizontal fragmentation of the profession into disciplinary tribes has been accompanied by the increasing participation of student affairs and educational development professionals located outside the academic units but are actively engaged in academic work, such as supporting teaching and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Governance, Leadership
DiSalvio, Philip – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2014
In April 2013, "NEJHE" launched its "New Directions for Higher Education" series to examine emerging issues, trends and ideas that have an impact on higher education policies, programs, and practices. In this installment, DiSalvio interviews Adrianna Kezar, professor of higher education at the University of Southern California…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Interviews, College Faculty, Nontenured Faculty
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Kezar, Adrianna; Maxey, Daniel – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2012
Institutional researchers might know more about non-tenure-track (NTT) faculty than leaders on many college campuses, particularly four-year institutions and research universities (Cross and Goldenberg, 2009). As such, institutional researchers play an important role in educating campus leaders about this growing segment of the academic workforce.…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Tenure, Institutional Research, Researchers
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Goldstene, Claire – Thought & Action, 2012
The alarming stories from adjunct faculty, who now comprise a majority of higher-education teachers nationally, share troubling commonalities. The frustrations are financial, personal, and professional. In decades past, most adjunct faculty worked full-time outside of academe and taught an occasional course based on a particular expertise or…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Tenure, Adjunct Faculty, Expertise
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Kezar, Adrianna – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2012
In academia, there are two different worlds, one inhabited by tenure-track and the other by non-tenure-track faculty. In the first, people encourage faculty to become involved in a series of important reforms that increase student success, completion, and learning. In this first world, people envision faculty simultaneously increasing their…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Tenure, Educational Practices, Personnel Policy
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McGrew, Heidi; Untener, Joe – Academe, 2010
Challenges associated with the increasing use of contingent faculty appointments in American higher education are mounting. The AAUP and other professional groups have identified several major problems: (1) unacceptable conditions and compensation for contingent faculty members; (2) poor learning outcomes for students; and (3) the potential…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, Guidelines, Labor Conditions
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Tam, Teresa; Jacoby, Daniel – Academe, 2009
The effects of reliance on part-time faculty in higher education have been much discussed of late. Most observers now agree that the increasing reliance on contingent academic labor has worrisome consequences for both students and faculty. The authors recently attempted to provide needed analysis of what drives the current reliance on part-time…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Part Time Faculty, Salary Wage Differentials, Occupational Information
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Kezar, Adrianna; Sam, Cecile – ASHE Higher Education Report, 2010
This monograph complements volume 36, issue number 4 of ASHE Higher Education Report: "Understanding the New Majority of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty," and focuses on theories applied to study non-tenure-track faculty and philosophical and practical tensions represented in the literature. The chapter "Theories Used to Study and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Nontenured Faculty, Part Time Faculty, Adjunct Faculty
Mandleco, Barbara – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2010
Women are not tenured at the same rate they are receiving PhDs, and less likely to be tenured when compared to their male counterparts. Reasons women have difficulty achieving tenure include not discussing important information about an academic appointment with colleagues, working part time or as adjunct faculty, being involved in "pastoral or…
Descriptors: Job Sharing, Mentors, Tenure, Search Committees (Personnel)
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