May 24, 2010
By Audrey Williams June
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Benefitshttp://chronicle.com/article/Adjunct-Group-Begins-a-Push/65663/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
The New Faculty Majority, a national adjunct advocacy group, plans to formally announce on Monday a campaign to push more out-of-work adjuncts to file for unemployment insurance between academic terms and during summer breaks. The organization's goal, ultimately, is to change a federal law that some colleges routinely invoke to keep adjuncts from receiving unemployment benefits during those interims.
Maria Maisto, president of the advocacy group and an adjunct who works in Ohio, says the organization's decision to undertake the National Unemployment Compensation Initiative stemmed from a recession that has worsened the already-tenuous job security of adjuncts and has thrust unemployment benefits into "the public eye right now. But many adjunct and contingent faculty don't realize that they're eligible to file."....
Monday, May 24, 2010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Voices of Contingent Faculty: Sloan Fdn Study
5/11/2010
http://www.umich.edu/~cew/research/voices.htm
Contingent Faculty in a Tenure-Track World is a 2008-2010 study, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan’s Center for the Education of Women. The project focuses on the perceptions of non-tenure eligible faculty at twelve research universities related to various aspects of their working conditions and career satisfaction.
In addition to disseminating our findings through print and on-line journals and conference presentations, we have also created this approximately five-minute vodcast. It summarizes what we found to be four primary factors that lead to job satisfaction or dissatisfaction for non-tenure track faculty: teaching/working with students, freedom and flexibility, job security, and respect and inclusion.
View the Vodcast: Voices of Contingent Faculty: Go to article
Read the Report:http://www.umich.edu/~cew/PDFs/SloanFinalReport5-10.pdf
http://www.umich.edu/~cew/research/voices.htm
Contingent Faculty in a Tenure-Track World is a 2008-2010 study, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan’s Center for the Education of Women. The project focuses on the perceptions of non-tenure eligible faculty at twelve research universities related to various aspects of their working conditions and career satisfaction.
In addition to disseminating our findings through print and on-line journals and conference presentations, we have also created this approximately five-minute vodcast. It summarizes what we found to be four primary factors that lead to job satisfaction or dissatisfaction for non-tenure track faculty: teaching/working with students, freedom and flexibility, job security, and respect and inclusion.
View the Vodcast: Voices of Contingent Faculty: Go to article
Read the Report:http://www.umich.edu/~cew/PDFs/SloanFinalReport5-10.pdf
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