{"id":9815,"date":"2014-02-10T17:26:02","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T01:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=9815"},"modified":"2014-02-10T17:26:02","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T01:26:02","slug":"the-just-in-time-professor-highered-edstudies-criticaled-ubc-bced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2014\/02\/the-just-in-time-professor-highered-edstudies-criticaled-ubc-bced\/","title":{"rendered":"The just-in-time professor #highered #edstudies #criticaled #ubc #bced"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">THE JUST-IN-TIME PROFESSOR:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/democrats.edworkforce.house.gov\/sites\/democrats.edworkforce.house.gov\/files\/documents\/1.24.14-AdjunctEforumReport.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">A Staff Report Summarizing eForum Responses on the Working Conditions of Contingent Faculty in Higher Education<br \/>\n<\/a>January 2014<\/h3>\n<p>The post-secondary academic workforce has undergone a remarkable change over the last\u00a0several decades. The tenure-track college professor with a stable salary, firmly grounded in the\u00a0middle or upper-middle class, is becoming rare. Taking her place is the contingent faculty: nontenure-track teachers, such as part-time adjuncts or graduate instructors, with no job security\u00a0from one semester to the next, working at a piece rate with few or no benefits across multiple\u00a0workplaces, and far too often struggling to make ends meet. In 1970, adjuncts made up 20\u00a0percent of all higher education faculty. Today, they represent half.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/democrats.edworkforce.house.gov\/sites\/democrats.edworkforce.house.gov\/files\/documents\/1.24.14-AdjunctEforumReport.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The JIT Professor<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE JUST-IN-TIME PROFESSOR: A Staff Report Summarizing eForum Responses on the Working Conditions of Contingent Faculty in Higher Education January 2014 The post-secondary academic workforce has undergone a remarkable change over the last\u00a0several decades. The tenure-track college professor with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2014\/02\/the-just-in-time-professor-highered-edstudies-criticaled-ubc-bced\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[554,747,2249,727687,287,2250,2251,2254,2255,727698,621,2257,211,2260,2265,2270,5038,2273,2275,2276],"tags":[1288925,1288933,2421,1288923,1288941,1288944,1288948,1288949,1288922,1288953,1288961,1288964],"class_list":["post-9815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-freedom","category-academics","category-accountability","category-adjuncts-sessionals","category-administration","category-advocacy","category-budgets-funding","category-contingent-labor","category-corporate-university","category-critical-university-studies-2","category-economics","category-employment-rights","category-faculty","category-job-market","category-organizing","category-solidarity","category-student-movement","category-students","category-unions","category-working-conditions","tag-academic-freedom","tag-academics","tag-adjuncts","tag-administration","tag-budgets-funding","tag-contingent-labor","tag-equity","tag-ethics","tag-faculty","tag-organizing","tag-students","tag-working-conditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9815","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\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9816,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9815\/revisions\/9816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}