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