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| Reports - Descriptive | 1 |
| Reports - Evaluative | 1 |
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Peer reviewedNelson, Cary – Academe, 1995
Proposes strategies for improving the status of graduate students and new doctorate recipients: a bill of rights for graduate teaching assistants, unionizing teaching assistants, making teaching assistants employees, paying a living wage, challenging the budget priority given faculty salaries, urging community colleges to hire doctorates,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Doctoral Degrees, Doctoral Programs, Employer Employee Relationship
Peer reviewedFlynn, Elizabeth A.; And Others – Academe, 1986
Two part-time faculty members and two full-time faculty members express their personal and professional concerns and attitudes about the trend toward increased and prolonged use of temporary and part-time faculty employment by institutions. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Employment Practices, Faculty College Relationship, Higher Education
Peer reviewedKnutson, Peter – Academe, 1995
An anthropologist seeking academic employment reflects on the plight of young, underemployed, often temporary faculty in a difficult job market. Conflicts between expectations and the reality of the stratified academic culture are highlighted. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Competition, Employment Patterns, Higher Education
Peer reviewedHeinzelman, Kurt – Academe, 1986
When a large group of nontenured part-time English department faculty were summarily dismissed, a significant segment of the English curriculum was left largely unattended, and other problems arose throughout the institution. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Administrative Problems, Case Studies, College Faculty
