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'Opportunities to raise scholarly communication issues come up in a variety of settings when interacting with faculty. Librarians can often take advantage of these opportunities to increase awareness of those issues and new developments in scholarly publishing. Discussions may result in a faculty member’s use of, and support for, new services created by the library’s scholarly communication initiatives. Some faculty may even become advocates for introducing changes in the institution’s strategies of disseminating locally generated scholarly content. The following real life cases are just a few examples of how you can take the information from throughout the Toolkit to create change on your campus.'

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'It is sometimes said that the University of Tennessee Department of English is a “traditional” department, training students in methods and for jobs that other schools have abandoned. Were only this true. Of course, as a marxist in African American Studies it would have been difficult for me to work in a genuinely conservative program over the long term, but a conservative program with a coherent sense of its intellectual mission in relation to the national community might have been a place of vigorous engagement. What I found instead was a department without an intellectual life, where once smart people did everything in their power to avoid a real conversation, looking forward only to the next time they had an excuse to leave the city.'

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"When I announced that I was leaving a tenured position at a good college you've likely heard of, the response that shocked me was not my colleagues' surprise, not their anger, but their envy."

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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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'However, just as the student population has changed and continues to change, so too are faculty members changing. Today's 21st-century faculty members share some characteristics with their students. For instance, computers were present throughout the educational experience of these faculty members, they likely had access to the Internet throughout their graduate studies, they may have taken online courses, they probably use mobile technologies, and they are generally comfortable with a wide array of electronic communication tools.'

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"Welcome to the world of higher education in the thick of an economic recession. While tenured faculty may feel more secure in their jobs than employees in more beleaguered industries, there’s little question that the quality of life many professors have come to expect is deteriorating at many institutions. Workloads are increasing while pay is stagnant or falling, and the threat of layoffs has brought an edginess to the Ivory Tower that some professors say hasn’t existed in decades."

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"English and foreign language departments promote male associate professors to full professors on average at least a year -- and in some cases, depending on type of institutions, several years -- more speedily than they promote women, according to a study being released today by the Modern Language Association."

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"Perhaps more surprisingly, many Ph.D. candidates who were notspecializing in Shakespeare said that they were nonetheless betting on the Bard. One young woman said that although her dissertation bore only a nominal relationship to Shakespeare, her committee had advised her to "play it safe" in job interviews by spinning that connection to the best of her ability. They believed, she added, that the economic circumstances made it imperative for her to sell herself as someone who could teach Shakespeare, regardless of her personal \ninterests."

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If you are a faculty member reading this and not feeling particularly flush,
however, there's good reason, as the AAUP report is quick to point out. The data
were collected prior to the announcements of many colleges of how they were
dealing with the economic turmoil over over the last six months. So the many
faculty members who were furloughed this year or the smaller number who
experienced salary cuts had original salaries reported for the study. And while
furloughs do not technically change salary level, they are de facto pay cuts
(especially if, as is frequently the case, professors don't feel they can
actually take the time off), and many furloughs are long enough and raises this
year were small enough that they will have effectively canceled each other
out.

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'The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is an independent policy and research center with a primary mission "to do and perform all things necessary to encourage, uphold, and dignify the profession of the teacher and the cause of higher ed

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'Scholarly output rises; undergraduates are disengaged. “This is the real calamity of the research mandate -- 10,000 harried professors forced to labor on disregarded print, and 100,000 unwitting students missing out on rigorous face-to-face learning,” Ma

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"A much discussed essay in the journal College Composition and Communication last year was titled “A Kind Word for Bullshit: The Problem of Academic Writing.” In the essay, Philip Eubanks and John D. Schaeffer -- both on the English faculty at Northern Il

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By Jean Dowdall. "I suspect that the greatest single impact of the recession on searches is that there will be a growing interest in and even preference for internal candidates."

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"Spousal (or partner) hiring is tricky business in the best of times....In a fiscal crisis, the stakes are much higher, since openings are fewer. If you're bringing in a half-dozen new people to a given program, you can tolerate one being a little behind

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"The data from CUPA so far this year suggest that professors are faring worse than administrators. Last month, the association released an analysis finding that senior administrators saw their median salary increase by 4.0 percent this year, the same perc

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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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By Robin Wilson. "Professors are losing their grip. Tough economic times are leading administrators to propose swift changes that short-circuit faculty governance, long a prized principle that gives professors wide-ranging authority over educational matte

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'If rhet-comp is the canary in the mine for the academy more generally, what it tells us is that the professorial jobs of the future are for an increasingly managerial faculty. From the perspective of the vast majority of university teachers ineligible fo

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