{"id":71774,"date":"2020-08-12T15:51:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T19:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=71774"},"modified":"2020-08-14T04:33:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T08:33:31","slug":"first-they-came-for-adjuncts-now-theyll-come-for-tenure-and-who-will-be-left-to-stop-them-burmila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/08\/12\/first-they-came-for-adjuncts-now-theyll-come-for-tenure-and-who-will-be-left-to-stop-them-burmila\/","title":{"rendered":"First They Came for Adjuncts, Now They\u2019ll Come for Tenure (And who will be left to stop them?) [Burmila]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/first-they-came-for-adjuncts-now-theyll-come-for-tenure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>First They Came for Adjuncts, Now They\u2019ll Come for Tenure: And who will be left to stop them?<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from chronicle.com by Ed Burmila<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>If, by their own accord or by caving to outside political pressures, university administrators take the current crisis as an opportunity to eliminate tenure once and for all, who\u2019s going to stop them?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Put another way: Are there enough academic workers with a stake in the tenure system left to defend it?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">&#8230;<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><br \/>\nAs go the adjuncts and the nonacademic staff today, so go the tenured faculty tomorrow.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">It is in the interest of tenured faculty to fight for their non-tenure-track colleagues. But the key question, as <em>The Chronicle\u2019s<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/the-new-tenured-radicals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emma Pettit asks<\/a>, is: Will it be too little too late? When contingent labor protested for years about poor working conditions, it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/views\/2016\/06\/28\/tenured-faculty-should-help-battle-opportunities-graduate-students-and-adjuncts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">did not find many allies<\/a> willing to fight alongside it. Now the roles are reversed: Tenured faculty will soon need the rest of the profession to help fight attempts to erode tenure.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Addendum on 8\/20\/20:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.educationdive.com\/news\/higher-ed-group-offers-ideas-for-supporting-contingent-faculty\/583413\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Higher ed group offers ideas for supporting contingent faculty<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from educationdive.com by Hallie Busta<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dive Brief:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support for non-tenure-track faculty members continues to be a concern amid pandemic-related cutbacks and pushback over how some campuses plan to reopen.<\/li>\n<li>A faculty industry group this week put out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaup.org\/news\/contingent-faculty-and-global-pandemic#.XzQx_GjYpMz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a list of principles and recommendations<\/a>\u00a0for institutions to protect those instructors, calling for them to get paid sick leave, unemployment benefits, and extended access to rehire or promotion opportunities.<\/li>\n<li>The ideas come as calls for greater shared governance grow across the sector in light of the ongoing health crisis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First They Came for Adjuncts, Now They\u2019ll Come for Tenure: And who will be left to stop them? &#8212; from chronicle.com by Ed Burmila Excerpts: If, by their own accord or by caving to outside political pressures, university administrators take the current crisis as an opportunity to eliminate tenure once and for all, who\u2019s going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,61,174,86,209,115,302,57,159,71,36,35,3,419,74,7,321,214,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjunct-faculty","category-business-side-of-he","category-career-development","category-change","category-changing-business-models","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-cost-of-getting-a-degree","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-faculty-staff","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","category-ideas-teaching","category-leadership","category-learning-ecosystem","category-united-states","category-universities","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71774"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71819,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71774\/revisions\/71819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}