Re: As universities build reliance on ill-paid contingent labor, it's the students who suffer

The AAUP did a study that was published last year:
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On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 3:21 PM DANIEL P. Tompkins <[email protected]>
wrote:

> From a news item about University of NC,  Wilmington:
>
> "... the side-effects of growth, the larger class sizes in critical
> courses, professors taking on more courses each semester, *ultimately hurt
> the students*."
>
> How many faculty there are tenured / tenure-track?  The data isn't easy to
> find. (Indeed, we need a good national survey of this.)
>
> Is institutional growth being built on a reserve army of contingent labor?
>
> This has job market relevance:  as people complain about lack of decent
> jobs, this story reminds us that there are in fact *plenty of courses that
> need to be taught*: but too often, universities are hiring on the
> cheap, *refusing
> decent compensation to the teachers they hire.*
>
> I am not an expert on this, but I can say, it's hurting students and the
> profession.  I can say that it's the expensive / elite institutions that
> seem most likely to provide stable fulltime teachers, and that students
> gain from that.  The question is, is that where we should be investing,
> when the bulk of American postsecondary students don't benefit?
>
> Dan
>
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