Losing Our Faculties: Contingent Faculty in the Corporate Academy

Autor/inn/en	Spinrad, Mark L.; Relles, Stefani R.
Titel	Losing Our Faculties: Contingent Faculty in the Corporate Academy
Quelle	In: Innovative Higher Education, 47 (2022) 5, S.837-854 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Spinrad, Mark L.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0742-5627
DOI	10.1007/s10755-022-09602-z
Schlagwörter	Part Time Faculty; College Faculty; Undergraduate Study; Public Colleges; Research Universities; Institutional Characteristics; Classification; Reputation; Professional Autonomy; Teacher Responsibility; Nontenured Faculty; Commercialization + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fakultät; Grundstudium; Forschungseinrichtung; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Berufsfreiheit; Lehrverpflichtung
Abstract	Public universities have assumed business-minded practices and norms that more closely align with goals and values of corporations than social institutions charged with creating and disseminating knowledge. One pervasive cost-savings strategy is the outsourcing of instruction to a contingent workforce. This case study explores the experiences of part-time and full-time non-tenure track faculty from undergraduate colleges across a striving, public, four-year research institution midway through its ten-year plan to attain Tier I Carnegie classification status and rebrand itself as a "very high" research institution. Findings describe contingent faculty experiences of the double-edged sword of autonomy. Their contingent status freed them from many responsibilities and oversight of tenure-line faculty but also alienated them from other meaningful faculty roles and activities. Drawing from academic capitalism, we theorize their work lives--grounded in now-antiquated notions of non-tenure-track faculty as casual labor, regardless of appointment type--provide descriptive insights into faculty culture and infer potential consequences of economic-minded faculty labor policies. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01