Professing Part-time: Essays on contingent academic labor, adjunct professors

Professor of Desperation:
Bad pay, zero job security, no benefits, endless commutes. Is this any way
to treat PhDs responsible for teaching a generation of college students?
Profile of lives and working conditions of adjunct lecturers.
By Eric L. Wee, Washington Post. Sunday, July 21, 2002; Page W24

The Role of Adjunct Faculty in Higher Education
Discussion of advantages and weaknesses of adjunct system, with
recommendations for improvements. By William G. Wickun, MSU-Billings
and Rock E. Stanley, Education, Texas A&M University. The Montana
Professor Academic Journal.

Contingent Faculty and the New Academic Labor System
By Bradley, Gwendolyn. Academe, Jan/Feb 2004.

Manifesto of the 21st-Century Academic Proletariat in North America
A critical analysis of the position of graduate students and adjuncts in the
modern caste system in the higher education sector. By Heidi Nelson
Hochenedel and Doug Mann.

Was Marx an Adjunct: The Economics of Private Nontraditional Higher
Education
Free-market response to the leftist critique of academic labor practices
and exploitation of adjuncts. By Walter Block & Marshall Horton.

Toward a New Labor Movement in Higher Education
Contingent Labor and Organizing for Change. By Eileen E. Schell.

Integrating Adjunct Faculty into the Instructional Technology Fold
Adjunct remuneration policies and issues are quite relevant to bringing IT
to the instructional mission. Compatibility issues between new campus
technology and the Adjuncts pose challenges.

The Entrepreneurial Adjunct
A Critique of Jill Carro l l and the concept of freelancing professors selling
their teaching services to multiple clients. By John Hess

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