aristof_ns
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« on: December 26, 2008, 01:32:40 PM » |
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I thought maybe there should be a support thread for people with non-TT jobs in danger of being eliminated due to budget crises.
Our department supervisor pointed out that the university's first set of cuts comes in the lecture lines, since we're the only ones with yearly contracts.
He said the number of lines we've lost is much higher than the number of lines normally vacated as lecturers find TT jobs. But given how many schools are on hiring freezes, I'd expect the number of people getting TT jobs to be much smaller than usual as well. Which would mean even more people competing for the few remaining lines.
Sigh.
What's going on at your campus?
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« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2008, 01:41:16 PM » |
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We have the normal number of people who were approved for sabbaticals next year so I imagine the same number of replacements will have to be hired to teach those courses. Some searches have been delayed but replacements will have to be hired to cover the classes previously taught by the retiring faculty. In the world of SLACs around here there will still be hiring happening for the temporary positions.
In the admin side of things though, if someone leaves a position, their place is not being filled necessarily putting a higher work load on everyone remaining. A new position in our office that has been requested for ten years and finally approved last summer is now in limbo.
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« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2008, 02:24:51 PM » |
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In a department that is filling available classes and classrooms that has NTT's teaching big 100- and 200-level classes, it makes no sense to cut NTT's. NTT's in such a department produce a huge number of student credit hours and cost extremely little for what they produce.
So my guess is that NTT's are in danger of getting cut primarily in departments which have a lot of small sections that could easily be combined into a smaller number of sections. That's what's going on here.
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« Reply #3 on: December 27, 2008, 06:38:09 PM » |
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There has been the threat of making class sizes bigger (right now, Frosh Comp is capped at 23).
There's also talk of requiring the TT faculty to do more gen-ed courses. This was being discussed even before the budget crisis, but now seems even more necessary.
The other issue is of offering certain courses only once a year, which may wreak havoc with students' abilities to meet graduation requirements. I assume that if TT faculty start doing more gen-ed courses, they'll have to offer fewer upper-levels each term.
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« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2009, 12:06:11 AM » |
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I got the dreaded letter today. I might get rehired here, but they may not have the money in place until Summer, so I should be looking.
ACK!!!
And my job search from the fall yielded exactly nothing....
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« Reply #5 on: January 13, 2009, 01:35:22 PM » |
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I got the dreaded letter today. I might get rehired here, but they may not have the money in place until Summer, so I should be looking.
ACK!!!
And my job search from the fall yielded exactly nothing....
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« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2009, 08:56:17 PM » |
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We are terribly squeezed. We are losing part of our adjunct budget, plus the grad school is taking away funding for our students. The department is dealing with this by expanding our hiring of grad students to teach classes so that they get tuition waivers.
I feel really bad for two adjuncts who won't be rehired, but the alternative is probably that the grad students have no funding and no hope.
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« Reply #7 on: January 18, 2009, 03:01:12 PM » |
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some small good news: the cuts may not be as bad as the university originally claimed -- there's a good chance we'll get more of our full-time lines back
not good news for part-timers, obviously, but it gives me more hope as a full-timer....
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« Reply #8 on: January 18, 2009, 07:44:18 PM » |
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My department scrambled to find someone to fill the tt version of my position before the state legislature met, in case they decided to freeze all open tracks. The dept hosted their last campus visit last week.
I was not called for an interview.
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« Reply #9 on: January 18, 2009, 08:24:53 PM » |
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Our place has cut quite a few positions already, but mostly administrative stuff. They're probably going to lose a couple of full profs over the next year (at least in our department) and I don't think they've got plans to replace them any time soon. Us adjuncts would be more cost effective, at least in outlay of cash vs. hours taught. At this point I almost hope they cut my adjunct position so I have an excuse to move on.
Did I just say that?
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« Reply #10 on: January 18, 2009, 08:33:26 PM » |
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My department scrambled to find someone to fill the tt version of my position before the state legislature met, in case they decided to freeze all open tracks. The dept hosted their last campus visit last week.
I was not called for an interview.
Sorry to hear this, Rose. =( |
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« Reply #11 on: January 21, 2009, 02:38:52 PM » |
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My position just got cut today. It was not full-time, but it was nice while it lasted.
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« Reply #12 on: January 21, 2009, 03:28:28 PM » |
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My department scrambled to find someone to fill the tt version of my position before the state legislature met, in case they decided to freeze all open tracks. The dept hosted their last campus visit last week.
I was not called for an interview.
Sorry to hear this, Rose. =( Thanks. I have many, many applications out but the field is really overflowing with applicants and only a few positions. I do have a tent, so I probably won't need that refrigerator box. |
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« Reply #13 on: January 21, 2009, 06:22:25 PM » |
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My position just got cut today. It was not full-time, but it was nice while it lasted.
My condolences. Take care of yourself. |
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« Reply #14 on: January 21, 2009, 07:09:24 PM » |
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Huge condolences to everyone who lost a position or who is sweating it out dreading bad news. It is especially sad how the most vulnerable are the ones who get hit--the adjuncts, then the one-years, then the other non-TT, then the untenured TT.
Good luck everyone!
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