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"The California Faculty Association, which represents 23,000 faculty members, from part-time lecturers to tenured professors, will finish voting Monday on whether to take as many as 24 unpaid furlough days to help fill the university’s $584 million or 20 percent state budget gap. A “no” vote is sure to spell significant layoffs, but faculty complain there’s no guarantee the furloughs will preserve all jobs, either."

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"The Nicholls State, North Idaho and New Haven cases all involved adjunct faculty members. And AAUP members, speaking at the annual meeting where the censure votes took place, noted that it was appropriate that the association is taking more censure votes over the rights (or violated rights) of those off the tenure track."

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"The growth in these jobs -- and the decline in tenure-track positions -- was found in all sectors of higher education, but was most apparent at community colleges. However, one of the most notable shifts was at public four-year colleges and universities, where over the period studied, tenured and tenure-track faculty members went from being a slight majority to less than 40 percent of faculty members. "

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"Why did campus employers substitute student workers for faculty and staff labor? Because it’s cheaper in salary and benefits, and they prefer to use the money saved on salary to do different things–build business centers and stadiums, or go into venture

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"With nearly 70 percent of professors at the nation’s colleges and universities working off the tenure track, all three national faculty unions have stepped up their efforts to reach out to adjuncts. But because the unions also represent full-time tenured

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blog entry on being an adjunct faculty member

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By Marc Bousquet. Blog about the inner workings of higher education

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"Casualization emphasizes cost reduction but conceals negative costs of precarious employment for teachers and students. Comparing the 1997/98 and 2007/08 York University Factbook shows a 46 per cent increase in full-time undergraduate enrolment. The tenu

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"The discussions here were part of an emphasis by the MLA on teaching and the curriculum. While the MLA meeting has of course long been known for the outrageous titles and highly specialized topics of some panels at its annual meeting, the association has

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"Although most nontenure-track faculty members are assigned to lower-division courses, they also teach a significant share of the upper-division courses offered to undergraduates — at least 22 percent at baccalaureate and master’s institutions, and at lea

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Without anyone paying much attention, professors have substantially been replaced by part timers and those off the tenure track when it comes to teaching English and writing to undergraduates."

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"The AFT and other faculty groups have argued that while many adjunct instructors are great classroom teachers, their working conditions — such as lack of office hours, being cut off from curricular decisions, being forced to move from campus to campus —

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Elon colleges decreases numbers of adjuncts and increases numbers of tenure-track faculty.

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News article on the burdensome teaching loads (and mininal pay)of adjunct faculty in Tennessee public colleges and universities

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