tenure

by Joseph G. Ramsey, Ph.D. Having now re-read AdjunctNation's response to my essay "The Invisible Faculty,"  and having had a chance to digest a range of responses to both the AdjunctNation piece and mine, I'm prepared to offer some…

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 the bill before, but this year Senate File 41 may get more attention…

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 remove the negative stigmas surrounding…

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…

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…

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 to the Tenure Track (2009), the AAUP calls for…

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…

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 page, Georgia NeSmith wrote in response to…

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 to the Tenure Track (2009), the AAUP calls for…

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…