Part-Time Faculty Involvement in Decision-Making

Ott, Molly; Dippold, Lindsey

doi:10.1080/10668926.2017.1321057

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“…Numerous studies over the last 2 decades indicate how departmental cultures, institutional leadership, and interactions between tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty peers contribute to unsatisfactory working conditions for those off the tenure track (e.g., Alleman & Haviland, 2017; Haviland et al, 2017; Kezar, 2012, 2013; Ott & Cisneros, 2015; Ott & Dippold, 2018; Sam & Kezar, 2015). Even those individuals employed in non-tenure-track positions that are full-time, on renewable contracts, and benefits-eligible still report feeling undervalued (Cross & Goldenberg, 2009; Drake et al, 2019; Kezar & Maxey, 2014; Maisto & Street, 2011).…”

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Hierarchies and paradoxes: How women in non-tenure-track faculty positions experience a gendered organization.

Blalock¹,

Stefanese-Yates²

2024

Journal of Diversity in Higher Education

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Despite efforts by colleges and universities to increase gender equity among faculty and administrative leadership, institutions of higher education are gendered organizations. Using critical qualitative inquiry, we interviewed 23 faculty who identified as women in non-tenure-track positions at two public regional comprehensive universities to explore how they encountered a gendered organization in their work. Participants identified three salient experiences of a gendered organization: taking on extra work, being mothers in the classroom, and confronting the physical body. These findings implicate larger structural habits of colleges and universities in the non-tenure-track faculty work environment, habits that reproduce gendered notions of work and women's place in academia. Furthermore, these findings demonstrate how hierarchies between men and women in academia are reinforced and how paradoxes are introduced in women's work in non-tenure-track faculty positions.

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