#adjunctification — Public Fediverse posts

This is not a story about Islamophobia or trigger warnings or what material is appropriate to show in an art class. It’s a story about how expendable adjunct professors are, and how non-faculty deans who have no commitment to academic freedom have gained too much power in colleges and universities.
#Hamline #Islamophobia #adjunctification #AcademicFreedom
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/08/us/hamline-university-islam-prophet-muhammad.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Having trouble finding a #tenure-track #faculty position in the US? Here are three big reasons. /1

First: #adjunctification An increasing proportion of the faculty at US institutions consists of extremely poorly paid part-time adjuncts. This is largely a higher administration issue, since departments would rather have tenure-track faculty if provided the funds, but departments and faculty senates bear part of the blame for acceding to this egregious practice.