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May 05, 2009, 09:54 AM ET
U. of California Instructors Off Tenure Track Mark Today as 'New Faculty Majority Day'
Non-tenure track faculty members on University of California campuses are teaching their classes outside, holding rallies, and wearing red today in observance of the first-ever New Faculty Majority Day.
The point is to draw attention to the fact that most people who teach at colleges and universities nowadays work outside the tenure track, many of them part time and with no job security. Today’s “national day of action” gets its name from a newly formed coalition of contingent faculty members, The New Faculty Majority.
The University Council-American Federation of Teachers, the union for faculty members and librarians in the University of California system, promoted the day it helped to create in a news release that warns of how the quality of education in the university system is crumbling.
That’s because “when 60 percent of courses are taught by nontenure people, that means 60 percent of the courses are vulnerable to budget cuts,” said Bob Samuels, president of the union. Events are scheduled at University of California campuses in Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles, and San Diego, among others.
Categories: Faculty-hiring, Salary-and-benefits
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