Better Contracts for Full-Time Adjuncts

by E Wayne Ross on March 31, 2008

Inside Higher Ed: Better Contracts for Full-Time Adjuncts

Many people used to use “part timer” as a synonym for “adjunct.” Increasingly, the two words can’t be assumed to be interchangeable, as one of the fastest growing job categories in higher education is the full-time instructor off the tenure track. With that in mind, faculty unions are talking more about the need to include specific provisions in contracts to help this subset of the professorial work force.