Tenure as a necessary but not sufficient requirement for academic freedom

2006 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 583-584
Author(s):  
John Ruscio ◽  
April Kelly-Woessner

Although the job security afforded by tenure is one important factor in deciding whether or how to exercise academic freedom, professors must weigh a number of other important career goals that constrain their choices. This multiplicity of goals, combined with concerns about career mobility, may help to explain the differences Ceci et al. observe between professors at different ranks.

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bob Hanke

This article argues that Maurizio Lazzarato’s (2014) book Signs and Machines: Capitalism and the Production of Subjectivity is useful for apprehending the employment of contract faculty. After setting the scene of the university, I examine the mixed semiotics of the York University budget. I then look inside CUPE Local 3903’s history and politics, and focus on the video This Is Contract Faculty Time: York Faculty in Support of Contract Faculty. In the next section I describe how mixed semiotics operates at the bargaining table. Finally, I review the outcome of collective bargaining with respect to job security, political action, and truth-telling. This case of academic labour struggle shows that semiotization and subjectivation need to be better understood. I conclude with some remarks on challenges, academic freedom, and ways of reforming the faculty employment system.Cet article soutient que Signs and Machines: Capitalism and the Production of Subjectivity (« Signes et machines : le capitalisme et la production de la subjectivité », 2014) de Maurizio Lazzarato est utile pour comprendre le travail des enseignants intérimaires. Après avoir décrit la situation actuelle à l’université, je considère la sémiotique mixte du budget de York University. J’examine ensuite l’histoire et la politique du Syndicat canadien de la fonction publique, section locale 3903, ainsi que le vidéo This Is Contract Faculty Time: York Faculty in Support of Contract Faculty (« C’est le moment de parler des enseignants intérimaires : le corps professoral de York à leur appui »). Dans la section suivante, je montre comment la sémiotique mixte peut aider à mieux comprendre la table de négociation. Enfin, j’évalue les résultats de la négociation collective par rapport à la sécurité d’emploi, l’action politique et l’honnêteté. Cette lutte pour le travail académique montre qu’on a besoin de mieux comprendre la sémiotisation et la subjectivation. Je conclus par quelques remarques sur les défis, la liberté académique et quelques façons de réformer le système d’emploi pour le corps professoral.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-154
Author(s):  
Diane Reynolds

As has been well-documented, adjuncts, who often live beneath the poverty line, lack adequate financial compensation and job security for the work they do. What is not normally focused on is the way the apartheid structure of academe, which severs the adjunct from institutional support and protection, violates the core mission of academe. Academics are defined not as employees, but as professionals, and offered academic freedom because the larger society understands that their unfettered pursuit of knowledge leads to the betterment of humankind. This paper argues that academe, according to its own standards, is obligated to provide adjuncts, many of whom are independent scholars, far greater professional support and protection. The paper also explores empathy towards adjuncts and ways to overcome adjunct separation.


2019 ◽  
pp. 134-156
Author(s):  
Jason Brennan ◽  
Phillip Magness

This chapter considers academics’ use of moral language to cover their self-interest. For instance, when a college professor receives tenure, she enjoys tremendous job security. She can then only be fired “for cause” or in case of severe financial emergency. She can hang on to her job for years beyond what should have marked her retirement. At most R1 universities, she can cease publishing without losing her job, even though her primary work responsibility is to publish. In public, professors have to explain why tenure should exist, but need not extol all the benefits tenure grants to them. Instead, they offer high-minded, public-spirited, morally charged arguments, such that tenure protects academic freedom or enhances research productivity.


2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Virginia H. Russell ◽  
Alfred V. Robinson, Jr.

The growth in large multinational corporations with highly diversified activities, requiring relatively complex financial accounting reporting systems, suggests that a sustained pattern of growth in accounting career positions will continue into the 1990s, and thus an increasing percentage of undergraduate minority students will select accounting as a major. To the extent that higher educational opportunities and career mobility are enhanced, systematic investigations of both socioeconomic and appropriate pedagogical concerns for these enrollees should be pursued. This study examines the career goals and priorities of minority undergraduate majors with the summarization clearly indicating the respondents emphasis on career activities as the major motivating force for choosing this professional preparatory program.


2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (5) ◽  
pp. 588-599
Author(s):  
Julia L. Conkel-Ziebell ◽  
George V. Gushue ◽  
Sherri L. Turner

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