Tag: Non-tenured Faculty

Faculty & Staff

Growing Proportion of Part-Time Faculty Portends Problems

The decline in tenured and tenure-track college and university faculty and the increase in nontenured full-time, part-time and adjunct instructors — a decades-long trend that shows no sign of slowing — is likely to have widespread impact across the higher education landscape.

July 30, 2019

Faculty & Staff

Union: University of Oregon Planning 75 Layoffs of Faculty

EUGENE, Ore. — A labor union representing University of Oregon employees says the school is considering a plan to lay off 75 nontenured faculty members. The Register-Guard reports that United Academics says the reductions will affect employees of the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Education and other university units. The plans come […]

March 1, 2017

Students

San Francisco State Journalism Professor Yumi Wilson’s Multicultural Heritage Helps Connect People

The former reporter for The Associated Press and the San Francisco Chronicle was a Fulbright Scholar and holds an MFA in creative nonfiction writing from the University of San Francisco.

August 10, 2011

Faculty & Staff

Course Correction at FAMU

Florida A&M University president James Ammons takes bold action to mitigate financial crises at the historically Black Tallahassee-based university.

August 1, 2011

Students

Raising the Bar on Diversity

Part two of three-part series — Allegheny College’s transformation emerges with dialogue, relationships and structural change.

July 27, 2011

Students

Faculty Members Seeking to Oust Medgar Evers President

Medgar Evers College, the newest and smallest member of the City University of New York system, finds itself in a familiar but unenviable position — cloaked in controversy — as faculty leaders press for the immediate ouster of its new president and provost.

February 3, 2011

Students

Faculty Members Seeking to Oust Medgar Evers President

In response to the no-confidence vote, Dr. William Pollard, president since August 2009, issued an open letter to the college to dismiss calls for his ouster.

February 2, 2011

Faculty & Staff

New Louisiana Community College Campus May Prove Too Small

With President Barack Obama setting a goal of producing 5 million more community college graduates in the next decade, it seems community colleges are finally having their moment.

July 19, 2010

Faculty & Staff

Scholar Says Research Universities Not Serious About Faculty Diversity

To Dr. M. Cookie Newsom, director for diversity education and assessment at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, there’s no delicate way of describing the lack of commitment she believes many top research universities demonstrate as they allegedly seek to diversify their faculties.

June 9, 2010

Faculty & Staff

Southern U. in Baton Rouge Nearing the ‘Point of Crisis’

Deep state budget cuts, forced by falling state revenue and a new focus on performance-based funding, is pushing Southern University of Baton Rouge (SUBR) to the brink of crisis, the school’s chancellor says.

February 1, 2010

Faculty & Staff

Va. Military Institute Faces Sexism Accusations

The Virginia Military Institute is defending itself against a lengthy investigation into accusations that the school’s policies are sexist and hostile toward female cadets.

November 24, 2009

Faculty & Staff

LASTWORD: R-E-S-P-E-C-T

Adjunct faculty are invaluable to community colleges, so why aren’t they taken into consideration in the colleges’ missions?

September 30, 2009