Higher education and its contingent faculty of the future: is it a risk worth taking?

Article Abstract:

There is tremendous pressure on institutions to cut the costs associated with the faculty, although many faculty members have unacceptably low wages. University program administrators have sued contingent academics because it has a dynamic effect on faculty ranks and also on higher education and the contingent workers.

Influence, College teachers, College faculty, Education, Higher, Higher education

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Campus equity week's offspring takes a few steps: contingent faculty organizing in metro Chicago

Article Abstract:

Metro Chicago's higher education contingent faculty expanded rapidly after the Campus Equity Week in fall 2001. The founding of The Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor (COCAL) further sparked off organization among contingent faculty in Chicago City Colleges, the largest single group in the area.

Evaluation

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Contingent faculty: A new social movement takes shape

Article Abstract:

The rise in employment of contingent faculty has become a major issue in America as the regular faculty, administrators and the public at large have different interests from those of the contingent ones. It is now become more of a social issue and is fueling social activism.

Labor force information, Public affairs, Social aspects, Employment

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