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ERIC Number: EJ1205900
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 5
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0363-4523
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"Yes, and… " Continuing the Scholarly Conversation about Contingent Labor in Higher Education. Wicked Problems Forum: Contingent Labor in Higher Education
Rudick, C. Kyle; Dannels, Deanna P.
Communication Education, v68 n2 p259-263 2019
As public spending for higher education continues its decades-long decline (Chronicle of Higher Education, 2014), and university boards and administrators seek ways to balance their budgets, faculty (and staff) labor has been targeted as a way to make ends meet. Attacks on faculty labor can take different forms, such as reducing or eliminating liberal arts requirements, decreasing faculty need, especially in the humanities; increasing class sizes (requiring fewer instructors to cover individual sections); and the elimination or hollowing out of tenure through punitive post-tenure review policies. Penultimate in the drive for a more (in managerial-speak) "flexible labor" is the increasing reliance on contingent faculty--those with term-to-term or multiyear contracts, but no guarantee of long-term employment. The use, and abuse, of contingent labor in higher education is a multifaceted, long-entrenched practice, signifying its place as a "wicked problem" (Rittel & Webber, 1973), not only for those in these positions, but for the entire higher education system.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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