Treatment of Adjunct Faulted at U. of New Haven

by E Wayne Ross on May 15, 2008

Inside Higher Ed: Treatment of Adjunct Faulted at U. of New Haven

For many faculty members who aren’t on the tenure track, job security is elusive. At the University of New Haven, as at a growing number of institutions, procedures exist to give multi-year contracts to those who have performed well for set periods of time. But a report being released today by the American Association of University Professors finds that this system failed an instructor — who found herself booted (unfairly, the AAUP believes) just as she was about to get a multi-year contract.