2011
DOI: 10.1177/0002764211409192
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Using a Legal Lens to Better Understand and Frame Issues Shaping the Employment Environment of Non-Tenure Track Faculty Members

Abstract: This article provides an overview and analysis of legal standards helping to shape the employment environment of non–tenure track faculty members. Familiarity with the significant differences in the types of employment arrangements for non–tenure track faculty and the resulting legal protections is of potential value to scholars seeking to better understand issues related to these faculty members. Many non–tenure track faculty members possess limited legal protections related to their employment, but a minorit… Show more

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
1
1

Citation Types

0
2
0

Year Published

2017
2017
2023
2023

Publication Types

Select...
4
1

Relationship

0
5

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 5 publications
(2 citation statements)
references
References 5 publications
0
2
0
Order By: Relevance
“…Every citizen has the freedom of speech to address, say, the efficacy of vaccines, but only qualified professors, with degrees in relevant fields, have the academic freedom to do the same. 1 Academic freedom is thus narrower than freedom of expression in principle-and in practice it is even narrower still, as only academics with job security may enjoy it de facto (Hutchens 2011). Moreover, unlike public speech, academic expression is subject to quality controls by peers (i.e., peer review).…”
Section: What Is Academic Freedom?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Every citizen has the freedom of speech to address, say, the efficacy of vaccines, but only qualified professors, with degrees in relevant fields, have the academic freedom to do the same. 1 Academic freedom is thus narrower than freedom of expression in principle-and in practice it is even narrower still, as only academics with job security may enjoy it de facto (Hutchens 2011). Moreover, unlike public speech, academic expression is subject to quality controls by peers (i.e., peer review).…”
Section: What Is Academic Freedom?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…First, I have not included research that focuses on the treatment of adjunct faculty by institutions (e.g., compensation, affirmative action) except in instances where this is studied in relation to teaching. This includes excluding works that document adjunct faculty's pay differentials (see : Feldman & Turnley, 2004; Coalition on the Academic Workforce, 2012), threats to academic freedom (see : Nelson, 2007;Thedwall, 2008), and access to participation in faculty governance and collective bargaining (Hutchens, 2011;Rhoades, 1998). Given the prevalence of issues with the treatment of adjuncts in terms of compensation and support-both in the research literature and adjunct faculty's lives-it is not possible to remove these elements from any examination of adjunct faculty.…”
Section: Literature Review Processmentioning
confidence: 99%