Inside Higher Ed: Pushing for Job Conversions
In the campaign to deal with the shift of faculty positions from full-time to part-time, what counts as a victory? Better wages and benefits for adjuncts? More job security? Collective bargaining? Or the job security that comes with a tenure-track position?
In recent years, adjuncts have won notable successes on a variety of fronts, particularly through unions — although the most notable advances have helped but a small fraction of those off the tenure track. In Washington State, a national union-backed effort may be about to achieve legislation that specifically goes after “conversion” — taking part-time jobs and turning them into full-time positions, with tenure eligibility.
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