Don't Pit Tenure against Contingent Faculty Rights

Autor/in	Street, Steve
Titel	Don't Pit Tenure against Contingent Faculty Rights
Quelle	In: Academe, 94 (2008) 3, S.35-37 (3 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0190-2946
Schlagwörter	Tenure; Academic Freedom; College Faculty; Intellectual Freedom; Higher Education; Adjunct Faculty + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Amtszeit; Beschäftigungsdauer; Akademische Freiheit; Fakultät; Intellektuelle Unabhängigkeit; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen
Abstract	By August, Steven D. Levitt's March 3, 2007, entry on his "Freakonomics" blog, titled "Let's Just Get Rid of Tenure (Including Mine)," had sparked sixty-eight responses, ranging from applause to scrutiny of his facts. Only one response, however, addressed the concept of tenure as it affects the 68 percent of faculty nationwide without it: the untenured and untenurable. Though tenure is widely assumed to be the sole insurer of academic freedom, many contingents have found that their institutions' very lack of commitment to them has provided another kind of freedom. Contingent faculty are free from career constraints and the long-term institutional and programmatic concerns to which many adjuncts are not privy. In the absence of financial or professional incentives, contingent faculty tend to be driven solely by a love for their subjects and students, so they can focus on what still must be--despite assessment programs and distance education and other technological innovations--the essential pedagogical interfaces between student, teacher, and subject matter. In this article, the author contends that tenured faculty have to stop seeing contingent faculty as a threat and start seeing the ways they are all interdependent. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	American Association of University Professors. 1012 Fourteenth Street NW Suite 500, Washington, DC 20005. Tel: 800-424-2973; Tel: 202-737-5900; Fax: 202-737-5526; e-mail: academe@aaup.org; Web site: http://www.aaup.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10