Book Review: Equality for Contingent Faculty
Edited by Keith Hoeller, Vanderbilt University Press, 2014, paperback. by Deborah Straw In Equality for Contingent Faculty, edited by Keith Hoeller, longtime academic labor activist John Hess is quoted as saying, “No contingent faculty is ever more than 15 seconds away from total humiliation.” This is one of the strongest and truest statements I have seen written about those I call adjunct faculty. As academic books proliferate about the status of part-time, adjunct, or contingent faculty, the members of this beleaguered group have more to say with fewer holds barred. As in other anthologies, the essays in Equality for Contingent […]