{"id":17911,"date":"2011-04-13T08:58:42","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T12:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=17911"},"modified":"2011-04-13T08:59:48","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T12:59:48","slug":"separate-and-unequal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/04\/13\/separate-and-unequal\/","title":{"rendered":"Separate and unequal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Separate and unequal <\/strong><\/a>— from InsideHigherEd.com by Dan Berrett<\/p>\n

NEW YORK — Higher education’s own hiring practices are undermining one of its chief selling points: that a college education fosters upward mobility, several speakers said here Tuesday at a conference on academic labor.<\/p>\n

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In particular, it is the condition of adjunct faculty members, which was the subject of several sessions of the annual meeting of the National Center for Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions, that casts the harshest light on the gap between academe’s aspirations and its actual conduct.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn order to maintain faith with higher education, you have to be able to confront the idea that a high proportion of the most educated portion of the population is having trouble making ends meet,\u201d said Alan Trevithick, founding member of the New Faculty Majority<\/a> and an adjunct who teaches sociology at Fordham University and Westchester Community College, during a session entitled \u201cContingent Faculty: Issues at the Table.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe non-tenure-track faculty make the tenure-track research positions possible,\u201d said Robert Samuels, a lecturer in the writing programs at the University of California at Los Angeles and president of the University Council, American Federation of Teachers. The adjunct faculty serve this enabling purpose in two ways, said Samuels: they assume much — and in many cases, the majority — of the teaching load, thus freeing up time for full-time faculty to do research; and their lesser salaries for teaching highly enrolled undergraduate courses also result in net revenues that essentially subsidize other, more costly work at the university.<\/p>\n

From DSC:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see how the developing online-based exchanges\/marketplaces affect the professional adjunct faculty member — who may already be teaching at a variety of institutions at the same time. My guess would be that they will be well positioned to move into this developing new landscape — if<\/em> this landscape continues to develop in that manner.<\/span><\/p>\n


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