Equality for Contingent Faculty: Overcoming the Two-Tier System
Editat de Keith Hoelleren Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 mai 2014
Equality for Contingent Faculty brings together eleven activists from the United States and Canada to describe the problem, share case histories, and offer concrete solutions. The book begins with three accounts of successful organizing efforts within the two-track system. The second part describes how the two-track system divides the faculty into haves and have-nots and leaves the majority without the benefit of academic freedom or the support of their institutions. The third part offers roadmaps for overcoming the deficiencies of the two-track system and providing equality for all professors, regardless of status or rank.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780826519511
ISBN-10: 0826519512
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Vanderbilt University Press
Colecția Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN-10: 0826519512
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Vanderbilt University Press
Colecția Vanderbilt University Press
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Notă biografică
Keith Hoeller is an adjunct professor of philosophy at Green River Community College, where he became the first adjunct to win the college's Distinguished Faculty Award. He was also the first adjunct to win the Georgina Smith Award from the American Association of University Professors for improving the status of women and advancing collective bargaining. He is the cofounder of the Washington Part-Time Faculty Association and co-organizer of the New Faculty Majority. He has published more than two dozen opinion articles on adjunct faculty in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, and elsewhere.
Cuprins
Preface
Keith Hoeller
Part I: Case Studies of Progressive Change
1. Organizing for Equality within the Two-Tier System: The Experience of the California Faculty Association
Elizabeth Hoffman and John Hess
2. The Case for Instructor Tenure: Solving Contingency and Protecting Academic Freedom in Colorado
Don Eron
3. Online Teaching and the Deskilling of Academic Labor in Canada
Natalie Sharpe and Dougal MacDonald
Part II: The Two-Tier System in Academe
4. Organizing the New Faculty Majority: The Struggle to Achieve Equality for Contingent Faculty, Revive Our Unions, and Democratize Higher Education
Richard Moser
5. The Academic Labor System of Faculty Apartheid
Keith Hoeller
6. The Question of Academic Unions: Community (or Conflict) of Interest?
Jack Longmate
7. Do College Teachers Have to Be Scholars?
Frank Donoghue
Part III: Roadmaps for Achieving Equality
8. The New Abolition Movement
Lantz Simpson
9. The Vancouver Model of Equality for College Faculty Employment
Frank Cosco
Selected Bibliography on the Contingent Faculty Movement
Keith Hoeller
Appendix: Trends in Instructional Staff Employment Status
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index
Keith Hoeller
Part I: Case Studies of Progressive Change
1. Organizing for Equality within the Two-Tier System: The Experience of the California Faculty Association
Elizabeth Hoffman and John Hess
2. The Case for Instructor Tenure: Solving Contingency and Protecting Academic Freedom in Colorado
Don Eron
3. Online Teaching and the Deskilling of Academic Labor in Canada
Natalie Sharpe and Dougal MacDonald
Part II: The Two-Tier System in Academe
4. Organizing the New Faculty Majority: The Struggle to Achieve Equality for Contingent Faculty, Revive Our Unions, and Democratize Higher Education
Richard Moser
5. The Academic Labor System of Faculty Apartheid
Keith Hoeller
6. The Question of Academic Unions: Community (or Conflict) of Interest?
Jack Longmate
7. Do College Teachers Have to Be Scholars?
Frank Donoghue
Part III: Roadmaps for Achieving Equality
8. The New Abolition Movement
Lantz Simpson
9. The Vancouver Model of Equality for College Faculty Employment
Frank Cosco
Selected Bibliography on the Contingent Faculty Movement
Keith Hoeller
Appendix: Trends in Instructional Staff Employment Status
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index
Recenzii
"Most Americans do not realize that when they send their children to college many of their classes will be taught by contingent, 'adjunct,' faculty. These professors are poorly paid, receive no benefits and are often mistreated by administrators. Nevertheless, adjunct faculty are typically well qualified in their subjects and love to teach. The essays presented in this excellent volume explore the world of the adjunct faculty and show that contingent need not and should not mean unequal."
--Benjamin Ginsberg, author of The Fall of the Faculty
"This book tells the story of the transformation of higher education in the United States and Canada as a place where skilled teachers earning decent salaries and benefits were free to teach students and pursue their research interests in a climate of relative security, to one in which most classes are taught by skilled but poorly paid and extremely insecure contingent faculty. The great irony of this transformation is that those who teach do not enjoy the wages and benefits they are presumably preparing their students to enjoy, in many ways working under circumstances not so much different from those of migrant farm laborers, who often cannot afford the food they produce for the rest of us. Unfortunately, tenured faculty, even in unionized colleges, have used their power to protect themselves, not only ignoring but acting in a hostile manner toward their less fortunate part-time colleagues. And yet, as the noted teachers, scholars, and activists in this timely volume tell us, there is hope. The book provides many examples of successful struggles, waged largely by contingent faculty themselves, that have not only won better wages, benefits, hours, and working conditions for these, most exploited of professors, but have revitalized teacher unions and improved the academic life of their workplaces. Equality for Contingent Faculty not only reveals the dirty little secret of today's higher learning, but it also offers a workable roadmap for change."
--Michael D. Yates, author of Why Unions Matter and Wisconsin Uprising
"Higher education's shameful treatment of adjuncts reflects broader workforce trends that adversely affect millions of Americans in other occupations. Keith Hoeller's invaluable collection explains the price we pay for an employment model that short-changes those who teach and learn in our colleges and universities. If knowledge is power, let's hope that Equality for Contingent Faculty gets in the hands of many other workers who have much to learn from campus organizing against the two-tier system in academia."
--Steve Early, former International Representative, Communications Workers of America and author of Save Our Unions: Dispatches from A Movement in Distress
"There's something weird and creepy about a democracy that insists upon universal 'access' to higher education and then denies a majority of its college instructors a professional wage, or even a living wage, all the while driving each successive group of graduates into a greater amount of average debt. This essay collection sheds light on how the two-tier system of tenure-track and non-TT faculty contributes to these gross inequities."
--Alex Kudera, author of Fight for Your Long Day, 2011 Gold Medal for Best Fiction from the Mid-Atlantic Region
"This book is a major contribution to the effort to expose and combat one of higher education's dirtiest little secrets: the fact that most post-secondary classes are now taught by contingent faculty without living wages, job security or academic freedom, or even health or retirement benefits. But this collection is not merely a bemoaning of a terrible reality and its awful consequences for teachers and students. It also is full of ideas for how to build a movement, inside and outside the academy, to change this. No informed reader will agree with everything presented, but everyone will learn new and important ideas. There is no substitute for contingent academic workers speaking for themselves, and in Equality for Contingent Faculty, they do so, and eloquently."
--Joe Berry, author of Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education
"Anyone who cares about the future of higher education should read this book."
--NEA Higher Education Advocate
--Benjamin Ginsberg, author of The Fall of the Faculty
"This book tells the story of the transformation of higher education in the United States and Canada as a place where skilled teachers earning decent salaries and benefits were free to teach students and pursue their research interests in a climate of relative security, to one in which most classes are taught by skilled but poorly paid and extremely insecure contingent faculty. The great irony of this transformation is that those who teach do not enjoy the wages and benefits they are presumably preparing their students to enjoy, in many ways working under circumstances not so much different from those of migrant farm laborers, who often cannot afford the food they produce for the rest of us. Unfortunately, tenured faculty, even in unionized colleges, have used their power to protect themselves, not only ignoring but acting in a hostile manner toward their less fortunate part-time colleagues. And yet, as the noted teachers, scholars, and activists in this timely volume tell us, there is hope. The book provides many examples of successful struggles, waged largely by contingent faculty themselves, that have not only won better wages, benefits, hours, and working conditions for these, most exploited of professors, but have revitalized teacher unions and improved the academic life of their workplaces. Equality for Contingent Faculty not only reveals the dirty little secret of today's higher learning, but it also offers a workable roadmap for change."
--Michael D. Yates, author of Why Unions Matter and Wisconsin Uprising
"Higher education's shameful treatment of adjuncts reflects broader workforce trends that adversely affect millions of Americans in other occupations. Keith Hoeller's invaluable collection explains the price we pay for an employment model that short-changes those who teach and learn in our colleges and universities. If knowledge is power, let's hope that Equality for Contingent Faculty gets in the hands of many other workers who have much to learn from campus organizing against the two-tier system in academia."
--Steve Early, former International Representative, Communications Workers of America and author of Save Our Unions: Dispatches from A Movement in Distress
"There's something weird and creepy about a democracy that insists upon universal 'access' to higher education and then denies a majority of its college instructors a professional wage, or even a living wage, all the while driving each successive group of graduates into a greater amount of average debt. This essay collection sheds light on how the two-tier system of tenure-track and non-TT faculty contributes to these gross inequities."
--Alex Kudera, author of Fight for Your Long Day, 2011 Gold Medal for Best Fiction from the Mid-Atlantic Region
"This book is a major contribution to the effort to expose and combat one of higher education's dirtiest little secrets: the fact that most post-secondary classes are now taught by contingent faculty without living wages, job security or academic freedom, or even health or retirement benefits. But this collection is not merely a bemoaning of a terrible reality and its awful consequences for teachers and students. It also is full of ideas for how to build a movement, inside and outside the academy, to change this. No informed reader will agree with everything presented, but everyone will learn new and important ideas. There is no substitute for contingent academic workers speaking for themselves, and in Equality for Contingent Faculty, they do so, and eloquently."
--Joe Berry, author of Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education
"Anyone who cares about the future of higher education should read this book."
--NEA Higher Education Advocate
Descriere
Successful strategies for enhancing the lives of adjuncts and other contingent faculty