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Post by wtf on May 1, 2015 12:08:20 GMT -5
I was looking through higheredjobs listings recently and I've noticed a number of "assistant professor" positions that, when you read the fine print, are actually limited term adjunct positions. What in the world is up with that? Are they trying to fool candidates into thinking it is a tenure track position? Or hoping to attract candidates who then can put "assistant professor" in their CVs in order to pretend that they are tt faculty? What is next, adjunct positions with endowed names?
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Post by Clarification on May 1, 2015 13:03:57 GMT -5
Adjunct is a person paid per course. Fixed-term or visiting positions are still assistant professorships, they are just contingent or contract faculty. They sometimes to often have some level of responsibility beyond teaching, even if it is just showing up for departmental meetings. Some places don't even have tenure and everyone is on a five to ten year contract with promotion possible at contract renewal. And while all contingent labor has some degree of shared issues and common goals, adjunctification is a problem because it is replacing full-time positions with part-time, no benefit, no nothing, positions.
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