Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Adjuncts and academic freedom

From the Chronicle of Higher Education: An Adjunct Bill of Rights. Unfortunately, it seems unlikely to me that any such creature will ever exist. University administrators have a vested interest in keeping adjuncts powerless and perpetually cowed. And tenured faculty? Well, as the article acknowledges,
"...since tenured professors are guaranteed a full-time workload year after year, Jacobsen says, they have not felt threatened by academe's increased hiring of part-timers, and thus have looked the other way, feeling that the adjuncts' plight does not affect them. Full-timers, Jacobsen said, have their piece of the pie, and their primary goal is to hang on to it, and to make sure that no one else takes it away."

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