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The fisrt definition of the word "adjunct" in the dictionary is as follows:
Something added to another thing but not essential to it.
I've found that over time, this term has really started to grate on me. I know for darn sure that "adjuncts" are absolutely "essential to" every college where I've worked.
It also bothers me to call a person an "adjunct" (like a tail or a sixth finger) as opposed to "adjunct lecturer" or whatever. Sort of like how it's insulting to call a human being "illegal."
I've heard of several colleges that have adopted the term "Associate Faculty." I like that better.
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« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2007, 10:09:16 PM » |
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Other than touchy-feelies, how does improve your actual material well-being or your empowerment in the institution?
Associate, n: A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.
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« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2007, 06:15:24 AM » |
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Other than touchy-feelies, how does improve your actual material well-being or your empowerment in the institution?
It doesn't. I do not suggest that such a name change would improve anything except "touchy-feelies."
Associate, n: A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.
This definition doesn't sound nice, but at least it's accurate. |
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« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2007, 06:27:13 AM » |
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Haven't we done this just recently?
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« Reply #4 on: October 06, 2007, 06:57:54 AM » |
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Haven't we done this just recently?
Don't know how I missed it. Where? Is it inside some massive 30+ page thread somewhere? |
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« Reply #5 on: October 06, 2007, 07:31:55 AM » |
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The fisrt definition of the word "adjunct" in the dictionary is as follows:
Something added to another thing but not essential to it.
I've found that over time, this term has really started to grate on me. I know for darn sure that "adjuncts" are absolutely "essential to" every college where I've worked.
It also bothers me to call a person an "adjunct" (like a tail or a sixth finger) as opposed to "adjunct lecturer" or whatever. Sort of like how it's insulting to call a human being "illegal."
I've heard of several colleges that have adopted the term "Associate Faculty." I like that better.
I don't like the term "Associate Faculty". Too easy to confuse with Associate Professor. |
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« Reply #6 on: October 06, 2007, 07:36:17 AM » |
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Haven't we done this just recently?
If you are talking about the sweatlodge name, we sure have. Heck, if I was an adjunct, I would want to be called an adjunct. Why gloss over what such professors do? I'd *want* to make it sound as crappy as possible to bring to light how problematic the adjunct condition can be for those that survive doing it. Associate might be confusing. How would you separate Associate Faculty from the Associate Professor rank? People use faculty and professor interchangeably. Ultimately, it does not matter. If today the name changed from adjunct to associate faculty, and conditions did not change, a few years later we'd hear from someone else who said that "associate" was dehumanizing and would want to rename adjuncts "co-partner" faculty or "faculty of the associative status." The conditions that underly what adjuncts do is the problem. The term is not. Untenured |
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« Reply #7 on: October 06, 2007, 07:40:27 AM » |
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Thinking about it some more ... by this same logic the word "Assistant" should offend us all. What Assistant Professor actually assists? We don't assist. We are independent instructors. I therefore feel dehumanized. Let's call us "Professors of Forthcoming Greatness" or something like that.
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« Reply #8 on: October 06, 2007, 07:47:06 AM » |
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Let's call us "Professors of Forthcoming Greatness" or something like that.
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« Reply #9 on: October 06, 2007, 09:52:07 AM » |
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Heck, if I was an adjunct, I would want to be called an adjunct. Why gloss over what such professors do? I'd *want* to make it sound as crappy as possible to bring to light how problematic the adjunct condition can be for those that survive doing it.
Interesting point. I hadn't thought of it this way. I suppose I might agree with this if every time a full-timer referred to "the adjuncts" s/he took a moment to reflect on said problematic conditions. If I was an illegal immigrant, maybe I'd want people to refer to me and my family as "illegals" to bring to light the problematic working conditions and immigration policies. I'm sure that is the intention of the conservatives who insist on referring to them as such. Thinking about it some more ... by this same logic the word "Assistant" should offend us all. What Assistant Professor actually assists? We don't assist. We are independent instructors. I therefore feel dehumanized. Let's call us "Professors of Forthcoming Greatness" or something like that.
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But at least you're an Assistant Professor. I've never heard anyone refer to Assistant profs as "the assistants" or talk about hiring "an assistant" to teach that course. Being called an adjunct lecturer or adjunct instructor is preferable to "adjunct." I guess the term is less offensive as an adjective (or verb) than it is as a noun. And I suppose it's not so bad to be referred to as an "adjunct" in casual conversation, but it really grates on me when formal documents or websites refer to human beings as "adjuncts." |
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« Reply #10 on: October 06, 2007, 10:01:05 AM » |
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Only seventeen Semantics were killed in the name of this thread.
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« Reply #11 on: October 06, 2007, 01:36:35 PM » |
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zuzu, I agree with you as well. Lecturers (non-tenure track faculty) need to hold their head up high and with dignity, as they are a very important part of the Academy. As we all know, lecturers are generally not looked highly upon by their tenure/tenure-track colleagues. Often times, they are treated as second-class citizens who perform cheap labor for the school, and are disposable if and when the enrollments/budget go south. Remarkably, many lecturers are very active in research and service as well! Perhaps, more so than some of the tenured "deadwood", who add nothing to the department. Titles are important in the Academy and Lecturers need to start tooting their own horn, because nobody else is going to do it for them. Dr. mathguy Lecturer Extraordinaire The fisrt definition of the word "adjunct" in the dictionary is as follows:
Something added to another thing but not essential to it.
I've found that over time, this term has really started to grate on me. I know for darn sure that "adjuncts" are absolutely "essential to" every college where I've worked.
It also bothers me to call a person an "adjunct" (like a tail or a sixth finger) as opposed to "adjunct lecturer" or whatever. Sort of like how it's insulting to call a human being "illegal."
I've heard of several colleges that have adopted the term "Associate Faculty." I like that better.
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« Reply #12 on: October 06, 2007, 01:40:28 PM » |
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The esteem train will be chugging through later . . .
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« Reply #14 on: October 06, 2007, 08:45:40 PM » |
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Thanks Angel. I see that by "done this before" I actually meant "had huge train wreck of a thread that served no use at all." My bad.
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