{"id":7526,"date":"2009-11-09T14:57:37","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T22:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=7526"},"modified":"2009-11-09T14:57:37","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T22:57:37","slug":"news-analysis-converting-adjuncts-to-the-tenure-track-is-more-easily-discussed-than-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/11\/news-analysis-converting-adjuncts-to-the-tenure-track-is-more-easily-discussed-than-done\/","title":{"rendered":"News Analysis: Converting Adjuncts to the Tenure Track Is More Easily Discussed Than Done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle: <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/News-Analysis-Conversion-of\/49089\/?sid=at&#038;utm_source=at&#038;utm_medium=en\">News Analysis: Converting Adjuncts to the Tenure Track Is More Easily Discussed Than Done<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Audrey Williams June<\/p>\n<p>The rationale behind the American Association of University Professors&#8217; 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.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217; recent report urging colleges to convert adjunct faculty members to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/11\/news-analysis-converting-adjuncts-to-the-tenure-track-is-more-easily-discussed-than-done\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2254,211],"tags":[2421,1288944,1288922],"class_list":["post-7526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contingent-labor","category-faculty","tag-adjuncts","tag-contingent-labor","tag-faculty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7526"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7528,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7526\/revisions\/7528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}