Special Issue: Understanding the New Majority of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty in Higher Education—Demographics, Experiences, and Plans of Action. Adrianna Kezar and Cecile Sam. 2010.
“This monograph provides a portrait of non-tenure-track faculty, describes studies of their experiences, and proposes plans of action. Much of the research, particularly early on, tried to provide a picture and description of this faculty that have been largely invisible for years.”
The University of Stockholm Syndrome. Ian Bogost. August 18, 2010.
An underclass is educating your children. Rob Faunce, Chronicle of Higher Education. September 2, 2010.
“I think we’ve all heard that refrain before, but perhaps it’s time to hear it again, and to think about the conditions of our younger peers as we move on into mythical jobs and mythical tenure.”
Solidarity vs. contingency. Cary Nelson, Inside Higher Ed. September 7, 2010.
“The only true solidarity among current faculty members requires granting tenure to all long-term contingent faculty members. […] The only goal worth fighting for is full justice for all who teach.”
Undocumented and unsung-Growing worldwide dependence on part-time faculty.
Liz Reisberg, Inside Higher Ed. November 8, 2010.
“Among the most interesting were the very large gaps in available data about who is teaching and the remuneration they receive. In most countries national data are collected and compiled by the Ministry of Education, but they are generally incomplete. One consistent pattern in all of the country studies was that there has been a dramatic increase in part-time contracts but with virtually no national data available about their number, profile or remuneration. As a result we are left to guess at what percentage of the teaching faculty is part-time, who they are, and how they are compensated.”
Conditions imposed on part-time adjuncts threaten quality of teaching, researchers say. Peter Schmidt, Chronicle of Higher Education. November 30, 2010.
“The two Michigan State University researchers who conducted the study […] stressed in an interview this week that they fault the conditions part-time instructors work under, and not the instructors themselves, for their failure to use effective teaching methods more often.”
Whatever happened to tenure? Stephanie Findlay, Maclean’s. January 17, 2010.
Documenting adjuncts’ pay gap. Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed. January 20, 2011.
Loyalty or desperation? Lee Skallerup Bessette, Inside Higher Ed. February 16, 2011.
“I was told upfront that I would never get a full-time job there because my specialty and interests were not a priority. Can I help it if I adapt as mercenary an approach to being an adjunct as they take towards adjuncts? Nothing personal, just business.”
Review of “The Faculty Lounges”. Dan Berrett, Inside Higher Ed. June 8, 2011.
Taking the leap. Janet G. Casey, Inside Higher Ed. November 21, 2011.
The time is now: Report from the New Faculty Majority Summit. Lee Bessette, Inside Higher Ed. January 30, 2012.
A call to action. Kaustuv Basu, Inside Higher Ed. January 30, 2012.
The ‘new majority’ of contingent faculty try to get heard. Léo Charbonneau, University Affairs. February 14, 2012.
Rhetoric and Composition: Academic capitalism and cheap teachers. Ann Larson, Education, Class, Politics. March 3, 2012.
The adjunct problem is every professor’s problem. Jonathan Rees. March 20, 2012.
Data storm. Kaustuv Basu, Inside Higher Ed. April 2, 2012.
The disposable professor crisis. s.e. smith, Salon (originally at Alternet). April 4, 2012.
Just not that into you. Kate Bowles, Music for Deckchairs. June 10, 2012.
Original sin: What responsibility do tenure track faculty have for the rise of adjuncts? Jonathan Rees. June 18, 2012.
The adjunct scramble. Kaustuv Basu, Inside Higher Ed. August 23, 2012.
Working for change in higher education: The abysmal state of adjunct teacher pay. Jeffrey Nall, Truthout. November 25, 2012.
Making the case for adjuncts. Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed. January 9, 2013.
Sessionals, up close. Moira MacDonald, University Affairs. January 9, 2013.
Chart of the Day: Overwhelmingly female adjunct staff face low pay and few employment protections Kay Steiger. January 9, 2013.
Quit! L.S. Powers, The Adjunct Project. January 28, 2013.
Why are so many academics on short-term contracts for years? Anna Fazackerley, Guardian. February 4, 2013.
The academic graveyard shift. Andrew Lounder, Education Policy. February 11, 2013.
Profiles: The faces of precarious work. Laura Kane, Toronto Star. February 23, 2013.
Academia’s indentured servants. Sarah Kendzior, Al Jazeera. April 11, 2013.
Tackling the cap. Carl Straumsheim, Inside Higher Ed. April 24, 2013.
When tenure-track faculty take on the problem of adjunctification. Jennifer Ruth, Remaking the University. May 25, 2013.
The pink collar workforce of academia. Kay Steiger, The Nation. July 11, 2013.
Who teaches university students? Contract teachers. Craig McFarlane, The Globe & Mail. June 21, 2013.
Don’t cheer the rise of the adjunct. Jonathan Marks, Minding the Campus. September 16, 2013.
Zero hours in universities: ‘You never know if it’ll be enough to survive’. Harriet Swain, Guardian. September 16, 2013.
Death of an adjunct. Daniel Kovalik, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. September 18, 2013.
Zero opportunity employers. Sarah Kendzior, Aljazeera. September 23, 2013.
Sifting through the scant data on contingent faculty. Léo Charbonneau, Margin Notes. October 29, 2013.
What does the national data say about adjuncts? Matt Bruenig. December 4, 2013.
Adjuncts and theories of politics. Fredrick deBoer. January 3, 2014.
Thinking beyond ourselves: The “crisis” in academic work. Melonie Fullick, Speculative Diction. January 10, 2014.
False statistic: 76 percent of American faculty are adjuncts. Matt Bruenig. January 14, 2014.
“The article says tenured or tenure-track professors make up 24 percent of the workforce. The remainder are not all adjuncts. They are a mix of adjuncts and all these other kinds of employees who the Times distinguishes from adjuncts.” [Read the comments on this one.]
The new old labor crisis. Tressie McMillan Cottom, Slate. January 24, 2014.
“Think being an adjunct professor is hard? Try being a black adjunct professor…to be clear, there’s been a labor crisis in higher ed for a long time. It just hasn’t always been a crisis for everyone in higher ed.”
The Just-In-Time Professor. House Committee on Education and the Workforce
Democratic Staff. January, 2014.
An ‘alarming snapshot’ of adjunct labor. Sydni Dunn, Chronicle Vitae. January 24, 2014.
Congress takes note. Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed. January 24, 2014.
Invisible hands: Making academic labour visible. Christina Turner, rabble. January 24, 2014.
“…while [in Canada] the average salary for a full professor in 2010-11 was $138,853, contract instructors make $4000-8000 per course and have no benefits or job security and little academic freedom.”
The income gap between tenure faculty & adjunct contract professors in Canadian universities. The Current, CBC. January 27, 2014.
Representing the new faculty majority. Stephen Slemon, ACCUTE. January 30, 2014.
“We still don’t have competent statistics about contract academic faculty numbers within the Canadian postsecondary industry, a fact that speaks volumes in support of the hypothesis that ignorance is motivated. We do know that the numbers are growing.”
Sessionals. Alex Usher, One Thought Blog. March 6, 2014.
“Basically, no one “decided” to create an academic underclass of sessionals. Rather, they are an emergent property of a system where universities mostly earn money for teaching, but spend a hell of a lot of it doing research.”
Remaking the Public U’s professoriate. Jennifer Ruth, Remaking the Public University. April 2, 2015.
The new normal. Kate Bowles, CASA. April 12, 2015.
The adjunct revolt: How poor professors are fighting back. Elizabeth Segran, The Atlantic. April 28, 2014.
Slavery should never be a metaphor. Tressie McMillan Cottom, The Adjunct Project. May 5, 2014.
Casualisation, (dis)ability and academia. Carla Barrett and Natalie Osborne, CASA. May 15, 2014.
I was a liberal adjunct professor. My liberal students didn’t scare me at all. Amanda Taub, Vox. June 5, 2015.
The teaching class. Rachel Riederer, Guernica. June 16, 2014.
The plight of hidden academics. The Agenda, TVO. June 24, 2014.
Sessional instructors: what we know so far. Léo Charbonneau, Margin Notes. July 16, 2014.
The opposite of good fortune is bad fortune. Ian Bogost. July 20, 2014.
New move in union-busting? Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed. August 5, 2015.
“…union members are saying [Duquesne University] has hit an unprecedented low in the fight, threatening in a legal brief to fire adjuncts who participated in the unionization process.”
I used to be a good teacher. Alice Umber, Chronicle Vitae. August 20, 2014.
Is that whining adjunct someone we want teaching our young? Catherine Stukel, Chronicle of Higher Education. August 25, 2014.
Offensive letter justifies oppressive system that hurts both faculty and students. Marc Bousquet, Chronicle of Higher Education. August 29, 2014.
‘Traditional’ academics are an endangered species. Geoff Maslen, University World News. September 9, 2014.
Calling it out. Kate Bowles, Music for Deckchairs. September 10, 2014.
No country for old adjuncts. Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed. September 24, 2014.
First Amendment rights for adjuncts. Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed. October 31, 2014.
Your waitress, your professor. Brittany Bronson, The New York Times. December 18, 2014.
Adjunct to tenure track. Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed. January 12, 2015.
A day without adjuncts. Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed. January 27, 2015.
The woman behind #NAWD. Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed. March 5, 2015.
Academia has to stop eating its young. Showey Yazdanian, The Globe and Mail. March 5, 2015.
More contract work in post-secondary education – a former bastion of secure work. Mary Wiens, CBC. March 5, 2015.
Academia’s 1 percent. Sarah Kendzior, Chronicle Vitae. March 6, 2015.
“No amount of publishing, teaching excellence, or grants can compensate for an affiliation that is less than favorable in the eyes of a search committee. The fate of aspiring professors is sealed not with job applications but with graduate-school applications.”
Crisis in academic labour puts Canadian universities on the brink. Erin Wunker, rabble. March 10, 2015.
Past is prologue when it comes to contract faculty. Melonie Fullick, Speculative Diction. March 11, 2015.
At universities, who is going the teaching? Editorial, The Globe and Mail. March 13 2015.
“Those superstar professors and public intellectuals who bring High-Ranked U. its global stature? They’re preoccupied with producing research, the university’s reward for greatness, and increasingly the university’s measure of greatness.”
What next for #NAWD? Lee Kottner, University of Venus. March 23, 2015.
O adjunct, my adjunct! Carmen Maria Machado, The New Yorker. March 25, 2015.
“Most students couldn’t afford to live on what we make”: The grim reality of MUN’s contractual faculty. Laura Howells, The Muse. April 2, 2015.
The professor divide at American universities and How to Fix It — The Case for a teaching-intensive tenure track. Jennifer Ruth, LSE Impact Blog. April 10, 2015.
“In our forthcoming book, The Humanities, Higher Education and Academic Freedom: Three Necessary Arguments, Michael Bérubé and I propose that universities and colleges put the professoriate back together again by building teaching-intensive tenure tracks.”
The cost of an adjunct. Laura McKenna, The Atlantic. May 26, 2015.
Zero-hours contracts and precarious academic work in the UK. Jonathan White, Academic Matters. Spring—Summer 2015.
“In the UK there are tens of thousands of people working on zero-hours contracts with no guarantee of work from semester to semester. Many of them are students, recruited into doctoral programmes by universities hungry for their course fees and then used to teach fee-paying undergraduates.”
Gratis. Kate Bowles, Music for Deckchairs. June 10, 2015.
I am an adjunct professor who teaches five classes. I earn less than a pet-sitter. Lee Hall, Guardian. June 22, 2015.
Contingent faculty aren’t working in the minors. John Warner, Just Visiting. July 9, 2015.
Employment (in)security and shame: Working hard on soft money. The Smart Casual. July 15, 2015.
Landmark court case win by NTEU, voids Swinburne anti-worker EBA. Josh Cullinan. National Tertiary Education Union. July 17, 2015.
Solidarity to Save Jobs. Jacqueline Thomsen, Inside Higher Ed. August 6, 2015.
The economic inequality in academia. Richard Goldin, Counterpunch. August 13, 2015.
“The reinforcement of professorial class privilege begins with the hiring process for the few available tenure-track jobs. Excellence in teaching, without academic publications, will rarely qualify an applicant for a university level tenure-track position.”
‘Sessional’ Instructors: Return of the Penniless Scholar? Katie Hyslop, The Tyee. September 21, 2015.
In Search of Solidarity for Sessional Instructors. John-Henry Harter, Briarpatch. September 2, 2015.
Fed up with precarious work, academic staff speak out for fair and full employment. CAUT. October 7, 2015.
Silence on campus: Contingent work and free speech. Alex Press and StudentNation, The Nation. February 17, 2016.
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