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Mason, Olivia; Megoran, Nick – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2021
The increased reliance of universities on a pool of highly skilled but poorly paid casualised academic labour for teaching and research has emerged as a defining feature of higher education provision under neoliberal New Public Management. Based on seventeen visual timeline interviews with academics in the North East of England, this article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Practices, Neoliberalism
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Chisholm, Julie K. – Academe, 2006
These days, most newly hired faculty are appointed on a part-or full-time nontenure- track basis. The AAUP has reported that between 1975 and 2003, full-time tenure-track positions increased by only about 16 percent, while full-time non-tenure-track positions grew by 178 percent, and part-time appointment rose by 189 percent. Yet tenure…
Descriptors: Nontenured Faculty, Tenure, College Faculty, Job Security