The stone that struck Goliath: The Part-Time Faculty Association, Washington State Community and Technical Colleges, and class-action lawsuits

2007 ◽  
Vol 2007 (140) ◽  
pp. 49-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eddy A. Ruiz
Keyword(s):  
Technical Colleges ◽  
Washington State ◽  
Class Action ◽  
Community And Technical Colleges ◽  
Part Time Faculty ◽  
Class Action Lawsuits ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Faculty Association ◽  
Time Faculty

scholarly journals Progress on Addressing Contingent Work Issues in Academia

2001 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Daniel Jacoby
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Community Colleges ◽  
Washington State ◽  
The State ◽  
Contingent Work ◽  
Community And Technical Colleges ◽  
Part Time Faculty ◽  
Academic Labor ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Time Faculty

Higher education workers in Washington State are challenging the use of contingent academic labor. This article examines data and policies relevant to the state's reliance upon part-time faculty in community colleges. Data from the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges is juxtaposed with results from a survey completed by 20% of the part-time faculty in 14 community colleges to show that most do not work part-time by choice. The quantitative analysis underlies a subsequent examination of legislative and court solutions pursued in Washington State. Despite significant spending constraints, the state shows signs of being in the national vanguard as it addresses contingent academic labor issues.

scholarly journals Faculty Publishing Productivity: Comparisons over Time

2006 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 230-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Budd
Keyword(s):  
Academic Librarians ◽  
Tenure Track ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Part Time Faculty ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Rate Of Increase ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Time Faculty ◽  
Over Time

Concerns about higher education abound, and these include concerns about productivity. The present study extends two previous examinations of faculty publishing productivity covering the years 1991 to 1993 and 1995 to 1997. Both members of ARL and a group of institutions included in ACRL’s data set are included. For both groups there are some increases in mean total numbers of publications, although the rate of increase has decreased since the second time period. Per capita rates of publication demonstrate an even flatter pattern. In recent years, there have been some changes in the dynamics of universities’ faculties; there are more part-time faculty and more faculty who are not on the tenure track. These factors, coupled with the publishing data, point to activities that all academic librarians should be aware of.

Comparison of Productivity and Cost of Full-Time and Part-Time Faculty Members in an Academic Department of Radiology

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 335-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
James H. Thrall ◽  
Margaret J. Meehan ◽  
Dianne G. Whelton
Keyword(s):  
Academic Department ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Part Time Faculty ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Time Faculty

Participation by Women in Annual Meetings, 1970-78

1979 ◽  
Vol 12 (03) ◽  
pp. 318-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Gruberg ◽  
Virginia Sapiro
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
The United States ◽  
Moderate Increase ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Part Time Faculty ◽  
Faculty Teaching ◽  
Previous Decade ◽  
The Status ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Time Faculty

In the late sixties, women in the United States became sensitized to their second-class status and organized to raise their consciousness and change their conditions. At the same time women in academia began to organize within their disciplines to address the problems they faced there. Political science was no exception; in 1969, when women constituted 5 percent of the membership of the APSA and 8 percent of all political science faculty teaching in colleges and universities, the APSA Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession and the Women's Caucus for Political Science formed. Numerous reports have revealed a moderate increase in the presence of women in the profession in recent years. As Table 1 shows, the percentage of degrees in political science awarded to women has increased since 1970. By the academic year 1976–77 women constituted 11 percent of full-time faculty and 18 percent of part-time faculty. Twenty-three percent of the students entering Ph.D. programs in 1977 were women, a downturn of 3 percent from the previous year, although an overall rise from the previous decade.

Part-time faculty and the law

1978 ◽  
Vol 1978 (18) ◽  
pp. 41-57
Author(s):  
Ronald B. Head ◽  
Edward P. Kelley
Keyword(s):  
Part Time Faculty ◽  
Part Time ◽  
The Law ◽  
Time Faculty

New Policies for Part-Time Faculty

ADE Bulletin ◽  
1982 ◽  
pp. 47-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Elizabeth Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Part Time Faculty ◽  
Part Time ◽  
New Policies ◽  
Time Faculty

A Scandalous Misuse of Faculty—Adjuncts

1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Lauter
Keyword(s):  
Adjunct Faculty ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Full Load ◽  
Part Time Faculty ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Tenure Decision ◽  
Part Time ◽  
New Varieties ◽  
College Managers ◽  
Time Faculty

While increasing attention began to be focused a decade ago on the scandalous misuse of part-time or “adjunct” faculty in colleges, their use has persistently spread. In fact, new varieties of “temporary” positions continue to be invented by college managers. “Part-time” faculty now include some who teach what amounts to a full load, but who are paid on a credit hour or per course basis, others who scramble for one or two courses each term and are paid flat rates, as well as a few whose salaries and benefits are prorated fractions of those of a full-timer. But there are now many “off-tenure” full-time appointments as well: “lecturers,” whose contracts are renewed every year or two but who may remain in their positions, without tenure, indefinitely; “nontenure-track” instructors and assistant professors, who may stay at an institution for four, six or more years but who, at the point of a tenure decision, must move on; “replacement” appointments, who fill lines for a year or two and then migrate to similar positions elsewhere. I shall use the term “adjunct faculty” or “adjuncts” to describe this quite varied group of individuals, for while the word is not precisely appropriate in all cases, its dictionary definition calls attention to the fact that such faculty, while “joined or added” to the institution, are in critical ways “not essentially a part of it.” Handwringing over the plight of adjuncts has brought no relief, and even most union contracts have so far been marginally helpful. That should be no surprise, for the exploitation of adjuncts serves a number of crucial interests of college managers and of those to whom they report. It is important to identify these interests more clearly if the abuse of this large number of our colleagues is ever to be brought under control, much less halted. For the exploitation of adjuncts is not a function of managerial nastiness, nor is it—any more than was the War on Vietnam—an unfortunate product of historical “accidents.” Rather, it is rooted in a particular conception of college management designed to serve historically distinctive social and political interests.

Seeking a part-time faculty position with a college of pharmacy

1990 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 1008-1008
Author(s):  
Michael D. Katz
Keyword(s):  
Faculty Position ◽  
Part Time Faculty ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Time Faculty

Sources and information: Community colleges and part-time faculty

2007 ◽  
Vol 2007 (140) ◽  
pp. 83-88
Author(s):  
Amy Liu
Keyword(s):  
Community Colleges ◽  
Part Time Faculty ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Time Faculty
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