{"id":9043,"date":"2012-07-31T09:08:36","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T17:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=9043"},"modified":"2012-07-31T09:08:36","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T17:08:36","slug":"with-student-learning-at-stake-group-calls-for-better-working-conditions-for-adjuncts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2012\/07\/with-student-learning-at-stake-group-calls-for-better-working-conditions-for-adjuncts\/","title":{"rendered":"With Student Learning at Stake, Group Calls for Better Working Conditions for Adjuncts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle: <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Adjuncts-Need-Support-Says\/133265\/\">With Student Learning at Stake, Group Calls for Better Working Conditions for Adjuncts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Academe needs a new model for the professoriate that better supports the growing number of instructors who are off the tenure track, the participants in a national project about the changing faculty have concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The participants, who represent a cross-section of academe and its stakeholders, also said in a report being released this week that they need to align to gather data that will paint a clearer picture of higher education&#8217;s increasing reliance on contingent faculty.<\/p>\n<p>A key reason for those two strategies to improve the jobs of contingent faculty members is that their poor working conditions may harm student learning, says the report, a &#8220;working document&#8221; produced by the Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle: With Student Learning at Stake, Group Calls for Better Working Conditions for Adjuncts Academe needs a new model for the professoriate that better supports the growing number of instructors who are off the tenure track, the participants in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2012\/07\/with-student-learning-at-stake-group-calls-for-better-working-conditions-for-adjuncts\/\">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":[2254,2276],"tags":[2421,1854,1288964],"class_list":["post-9043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contingent-labor","category-working-conditions","tag-adjuncts","tag-reports","tag-working-conditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9043","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=9043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9044,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9043\/revisions\/9044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}