The Chronicle: News Analysis: Converting Adjuncts to the Tenure Track Is More Easily Discussed Than Done
By Audrey Williams June
The rationale behind the American Association of University Professors’ recent report urging colleges to convert adjunct faculty members to the tenure track is simple: The faculty is falling apart. The time to do something about it is now.
It’s a clarion call that scholarly associations, unions, lawmakers, and even some administrators have sounded for years, all the while pushing in various ways to reverse a trend that threatens to turn the professoriate into an oasis of faculty members with tenure surrounded by adjuncts with poor pay, no academic freedom, and no job security.
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