tenure

Our Common Interest: Defending Higher Education and Changing the World (A Reply)

by Joseph G. Ramsey, Ph.D. Having now re-read AdjunctNation's response to my essay "The Invisible Faculty," [Please note: this essay is behind a paywall.] and having had a chance to digest a range of responses to both the AdjunctNation piece and mine, I'm prepared to...

As States Take Aim at Public College Tenure, Adjuncts May Come Out on Top

by John A. Neilsson Iowa State Sen. Brad Zaun, R-Urbandale, again has filed a bill seeking to end the tenure system at Iowa’s three state universities. Sen. Zaun has filed.

Is it Time to Eliminate Tenure?

Though not every contingent faculty member would be eligible for such positions, these alternative models can change the incentive structures inherent in the academic profession. They may be able to.

New Study: Jobs With Tenure Few and Far Between for Adjunct Women

by Kent McDonald Tenure is a goal many professors strive for — but it remains further out of reach for women and underrepresented minorities, according to a recent research study from the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association Institute. Martin Finkelstein, a professor at Seton Hall University...

Instead of Tenure…?

In between these actual posts about writing and adjuncts, the subject is always simmering in the back of my mind. What is the relationship? What should the relationship be? How.

AAUP Calls for Placing Adjuncts On Tenure-Track

Did pigs just fly overhead? Is hell freezing over? Check out this post from the Law Librarian blog: AAUP Calls for Placing Adjunct Faculty on Tenure Track In Conversion of Appointments.

The Role of Market Correctives

Recently I dipped in to the January 11, 2010 edition of the world's best magazine, I mean, The New Yorker. There I found "After the Blowup," an essay by John Cassidy about how the various schools of laissez-faire economics are dealing with—or failing to deal...

Let's Base Faculty Hiring/Retention Decisions on Student Outcomes

By P.D. Lesko "Do teachers matter or are teaching methods more important?" That's the question posed by AdjunctNation.com writer Melissa Miller in her entry this week. On the AdjunctNation Facebook.

AAUP Calls for Placing Adjuncts On Tenure-Track

[private]Did pigs just fly overhead? Is hell freezing over? Check out this post from the Law Librarian blog: AAUP Calls for Placing Adjunct Faculty on Tenure Track In Conversion of Appointments.

Instead of Tenure…?

In between these actual posts about writing and adjuncts, the subject is always simmering in the back of my mind. What is the relationship? What should the relationship be? How does one affect the other? What is the place of tenure in this equation? Some...