Re: As universities build reliance on ill-paid contingent labor, it's the students who suffer
"DANIEL P. Tompkins" <[email protected]> Sat, 26 Oct 2019 18:13:14 -0400
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Thanks! Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 26, 2019, at 5:29 PM, Dimitri Nakassis <[email protected]> wrote: > > The AAUP did a study that was published last year: > https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aaup.org%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2F10112018%2520Data%2520Snapshot%2520Tenure.pdf&data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40lsv.uky.edu%7C8ce00b0c977040f35a5408d75a61b47f%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C1%7C637077248074887107&sdata=4r68V%2F7L4L560HbGfpTIVK01Y04ANCk9fW7JBHF2vZw%3D&reserved=0 > > 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 >> >> >> https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wect.com%2F2019%2F10%2F25%2Fgrowing-pains-uncw-faculty-chancellor-odds-over-growth%2F&data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40lsv.uky.edu%7C8ce00b0c977040f35a5408d75a61b47f%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C1%7C637077248074887107&sdata=TAlEBk5RsRKjsVlCUEMFxWtwRtqL9VLaAf1mfanwiV8%3D&reserved=0 >>