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Today's post contains the final segment of a talk that I gave last December on the challenges facing faculty as they enter contract negotiations in June of 2014. Part 1 dealt with the history of the college system and changes to the level of government funding it receives. Part 2 dealt with the impacts of austerity on college students and professors. Part 3 focused on the issue of faculty academic freedom, and its critical importance for maintaining the quality of college education.
In Part 4, I discuss the drastic increase in non-full time faculty, and the ways this leads to precarious, under-paid academic work, and also to an impoverished learning environment. In addition, I share some insights from my visits to 23 colleges and consider how we can mobilize college faculty to make gains on the important issues of full time professors, sustainable workloads, and academic freedom.
Negotiations 2014 - Part 4
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