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The Challenges of Minoritized Contingent Faculty in Higher Education
Alvin Evans, Edna Chun
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Beschreibung
The Challenges of Minoritized Contingent Faculty in Higher Education offers a probing and unvarnished look at the employment challenges of these faculty members in four-year institutions. With dramatic shifts in the faculty workforce and nearly three-quarters of instructional positions in United States institutions now off the tenure track, contingent faculty have become the essential, frontline workers of higher education. Remarkably little research attention has focused on the experiences of minoritized contingent faculty in this new academic underclass. Based on in-depth interviews coupled with extensive research, the book highlights the double marginalization that can occur due to secondary employment status in the academic hierarchy, and the exclusion resulting from the intersectionality of nondominant social identities including race and ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability. As the first-person narratives reveal, these faculty often struggle for acceptance, recognition, and rewards in the day-to-day academic environment, and they can face devaluation of their contributions. As a pragmatic and concrete resource, this book offers proactive workforce strategies and key structural and policy recommendations that will assist academic and administrative leaders, including presidents, provosts, department chairs, and chief diversity officers, in building more inclusive working conditions for contingent faculty.
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"From tracing the roots of a two-tiered faculty system and its accompanying structural inequities, and an examination of today's erosion of tenure as a concept and institution, to detailing the inherent foundational inequalities present in the experiences of minoritized adjunct and contingent faculty of color and other marginalized status, <i>The Challenges of Minoritized Contingent Faculty in Higher Education</i> not only articulates the extant crisis, but importantly sounds both a well-articulated clarion for change and presents a dedicated roadmap for a way forward. It is a must-read for those dedicated to higher education policy and those on the frontlines working to create a just, equitable, and inclusive workplace within higher education."
"This important work [by Chun and Evans] creates a roadmap for ensuring that all underrepresented scholars, regardless of rank, are able to thrive and to contribute fully to the academy."
"Teaching is sacred, but I agree with Edna Chun and Alvin Evans and the multitude of voices and stories in <i>The Challenges of Minoritized Contingent Faculty in Higher Education</i> that the creation of a two-tiered faculty system has deeply wounded academia and has greatly devalued education and higher education. Chun and Evans explicitly detail how academia got to this point and the dangers of staying here, but they also offer pathways for cultural change."
"Edna Chun and Alvin Evans, two powerful and cogent voices in higher education, have written a compelling and timely book. This excellent book should be read by all parties—administrators, chairs, professors, students, and parents—interested in understanding and addressing the many challenges of contingent faculty. A significant strength of this excellent book is that it does more than merely present the challenges faced by contingent faculty—it offers practical solutions to these challenges."
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contingent faculty, neoliberal, adjunct, new faculty majority, BIPOC faculty, Black Indigenous people of color faculty, non-tenured faculty, intersectionality, DEIA, academia, faculty diversity, adjunct faculty, human resources, diversity, equity, and inclusion, college, university, labor, minoritized faculty, essential workers, faculty workforce models, two-tiered faculty model, higher education policy, access, DEI, corporatization of higher education