[Linganth] Colleagues, follow up to the last AAA resolution on contingent faculty?

[Nathaniel Dumas]

Hi All,

I hope everyone's week is ending on a great note. I remember in the past
few years the AAA has pushed the adoption of a resolution on contingent
faculty issues, particularly at the 2013 meetings. Does anyone know if this
conversation continued at the 2015 AAAs, including in the level of
sections? I'm mainly asking in my capacity as a new board member for the New
Faculty Majority Foundation <http://www.newfacultymajority.info/>, which is
looking into the idea of having institutional supporters. (We've been
approached by several disciplinary associations about this possibility.)

As such, I'm curious as to if this issue has remained on the explicit
agenda of the AAA like it has, say, for the MLA. I'm also curious about if
this has come up in the SLA in regards to its recent rethinking of
mentoring (based on the April 2014 survey Paul Kroskrity sent out) and how
mentoring at the disciplinary association level, in light of the rising
levels of adjunct faculty, may need to be different. (I was not able to
attend the AAAs last year so I apologize if this may be redundant.)

Best,
Nate

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Nathaniel Dumas
Research Associate, Department of Anthropology
University of Santa Cruz
nadumas at ucsc.edu
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