June 16, 2006
Legal Contingencies for Contingent Professors
A Doonesbury comic strip by the cartoonist Garry Trudeau offers a droll and insightful look at the general situation of contingent faculty members, those who have part-time appointments or full-time non-tenure-track ones. It shows an auction where a man with a bullhorn calls for "a Keynesian economist for a one-semester lecture course! Any takers?" A man in the crowd calls out his interest, and the auctioneer asks what he requires to take the job. The man responds, "A living wage, and to be
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