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Decisions regarding the current non-tenure track faculty have not been made yet, but the Journalism PLUS Action Plan states they will be based on instructional demand for those faculty members.
CU Independent: Two Documents Released on Future of SJMC CU Independent 2011
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According to a recent AAUP report, 68% of all faculty appointments in American colleges and universities are non-tenure track; over 50% are part-time, so-called contingent faculty.
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According to a recent AAUP report, 68% of all faculty appointments in American colleges and universities are non-tenure track; over 50% are part-time, so-called contingent faculty.
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Decisions regarding the current non-tenure track faculty have not been made yet, but the Journalism PLUS Action Plan states they will be based on instructional demand for those faculty members.
CU Independent: Two Documents Released on Future of SJMC CU Independent 2011
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For what it's worth, he was a Senior Lecturer during the majority of his time (about 8 years) at the school, which is a non-tenure track job, but more than an adjunct.
An Unfortunate Truth 2008
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(Part timers are only a subset of those off the tenure track since, for several years now, an increasing share of the adjunct population works full time at a single institution.) * Huge gaps exist in salaries between tenured and non-tenure track faculty members teaching English, although full-time adjuncts have seen salary growth in recent years.
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They face a tight job market, competing against each other for maybe eight open Beatles Studies professorships — non-tenure track, I might add — across the whole U.K.
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The bad economy keeps folks at work who otherwise might retire, and even when professors retire, administrators convert those positions into non-tenure track, part-time posts–the Wal-Mart-ification of higher education workers.
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The bad economy keeps folks at work who otherwise might retire, and even when professors retire, administrators convert those positions into non-tenure track, part-time posts–the Wal-Mart-ification of higher education workers.
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Because they're losing so much money from financial hair-brained schemes, universities (especially the private universities) across the country are having to raise tuition, while cutting classes, faculty, and non-tenure track faculty.
Allison Kilkenny: University of California: Where Students Pay More For Less 2009
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