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Equality for Contingent Faculty : Overcoming the Two-Tier System /

"Today three-fourths of all faculty are characterized as "contingent instructional staff," a nearly tenfold increase from 1975. Equality for Contingent Faculty brings together eleven successful activists from the United States and Canada to describe the problem, share case stories, an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hoeller, Keith
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface / Keith Hoeller
  • Part 1: Case Studies of Progressive Change
  • Organizing for Equality Within the Two-Tier System: The Experience of the California Faculty Association / Elizabeth Hoffman and John Hess
  • The Case for Instructor Tenure: Solving Contingency and Protecting Academic Freedom in Colorado / Don Eron
  • Online Teaching and the Deskilling of Academic Labor in Canada / Natalie Sharpe and Dougal MacDonald
  • Part 2: The Two-Tier System in Academe
  • Organizing the New Faculty Majority: The Struggle to Achieve Equality for Contingent Faculty, Revive Our Unions, and Democratize Higher Education / Richard Moser
  • The Academic Labor System of Faculty Apartheid / Keith Hoeller
  • The Question of Academic Unions: Community (or Conflict) of Interest? / Jack Longmate
  • Do College Teachers Have to Be Scholars? / Frank Donoghue
  • Part 3: Roadmaps for Achieving Equality
  • The New Abolition Movement / Lantz Simpson
  • The Vancouver Model of Equality for College Faculty Employment / Frank Cosco
  • Selected Bibliography on the Contingent Faculty Movement / Keith Hoeller
  • Appendix: Trends in Instructional Staff Employment Status.