Do as I Say, Not as I Do

by E Wayne Ross on October 24, 2008

Inside Higher Ed: Do as I Say, Not as I Do

When faculty members off the tenure track discuss their grievances, a common theme is that their employers pretend they are temporary employees when in fact they teach at the same institutions semester after semester, year after year. So when adjuncts find themselves bumped off health insurance or treated as non-employees between semesters, they talk about how such policies are both insulting and expensive to them. In fact, unions cite such treatment as evidence of why adjuncts need better job security protections.