AAA business meeting resolution on part-time academic labor

[Nathaniel Dumas]

Dear Colleagues,

This is great news! I recently organized a panel on this very issue for the 2013 Conference of Ford Fellows. The panel was entitled "Contingent Faculty in Today's Academe: Strategies and Experiences," and we had Gary Rhoades (University of Arizona), one of the foremost researchers in this area. If anyone would like the materials from the panel, please let me know. (One of the things we discussed was mentoring strategies for new PhDs who are entering the market, for many of us were advised by those who have never been contingent faculty, and we made sure to feature Ford Fellows who had been contingent faculty and transitioned into tenure-track positions.) I'm also working on something with the New Faculty Majority Foundation, a research/applied project that deals with developing research mentorship for contingent faculty and counteracting the stereotype that contingent faculty only seek to teach and not continue their research. If anyone has an interest in these materials, let me know offline. (Also, if you do not know Alan Trevithick, he is an anthropologist who also is a board member of the New Faculty Majority, the largest non-profit of contingent faculty members, and is also on the AAA's Committee for Labor Relations. He's a great source of information on contingent faculty and was a major figure in the Campus Equity Week events nation-wide.) Also see the Delphi Project, hosted at USC, which has the most up to date information on this issue, at http://www.thechangingfaculty.org/.

Best,
Nate

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> On Nov 13, 2013, at 6:08 AM, Laura Ahearn <ahearn at RCI.RUTGERS.EDU> wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> Here are a couple of charts from AAUP depicting the dramatic changes in faculty labor that make the resolution so important:
> 
> http://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/Faculty_Trends_0.pdf
> 
> Laura
> 
> *****************************
> Laura M. Ahearn
> Associate Professor, Rutgers University
> Department of Anthropology
> Series Editor, Oxford Studies in the Anthropology of Language
> (703) 241-4127
> Twitter: @AhearnLaura
> http://www.anthro.rutgers.edu/fac/department-undergrad-a-grad-faculty/laura-ahearn
> 
>> On Nov 13, 2013, at 7:57 AM, Leila Monaghan <leila.monaghan at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks for passing the resolution about part time faculty on, Steve, and I
>> urge all my colleagues to attend the business meeting on Thursday night at
>> 6:15!
>> 
>> all best,
>> 
>> Leila
>> 
>> 
>>> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 5:27 AM, Steven Black <stevepblack at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Dear all,
>>> I'm writing to share some information that was forwarded to me that is
>>> likely of interest to many listserv members, about a resolution being
>>> raised
>>> at the American Anthropology Association business meeting about adjunction
>>> and part-time academic labor:
>>> 
>>> "Sharryn Kasmir has asked me to get the word out re: the CoLR resolution on
>>> adjunct rights. For it to pass, supporters will need two things: a quorum
>>> at
>>> the AAA business meeting and plenty of supportive voters to be present. The
>>> business meeting is Thurs. Nov. 21 at 6:15. Try your best to be there if
>>> you
>>> can!!
>>> Take care,
>>> 
>>> Jeff Maskovsky"
>>> 
>>> Here is a link to Savage Minds, which has the resolution posted:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> http://backupminds.wordpress.com/2013/11/10/aaa-to-hear-resolution-on-contin
>>> gent-and-part-time-academic-labor/
>>> 
>>> I can't wait to see friends and meet new people!
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Steve Black
>>> 
>>> Steven P. Black
>>> Department of Anthropology
>>> Georgia State University
>>> P.O. Box 3998
>>> Atlanta, GA 30302-3998
>>> 
>>> Phone (404) 413-5168
>>> Fax (404) 413-5159
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Leila Monaghan, PhD
>> Department of Anthropology
>> Southern Illinois University Carbondale