Friday, May 15, 2015

Teaching-Intensive tenure-track positions? In my opinion, this is a no-brainer.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/05/15/new-book-proposes-teaching-intensive-tenure-track-model-address-real-crisis

We shouldn't need a new book to tell us this.  It's a win-win-win:

1.  Colleges and universities could deliver instruction more efficiently.  We don't need tenured faculty who teach two or three classes a semester and do Lord-knows-what with the remainder of their work weeks... who grace our campuses with their presence a day or two a week... who earn high five and low six figure incomes for eight to nine months of part-time employment... and who publish monographs and articles that few read.

2.  Adjunct and other contingent faculty would presumably qualify for such positions, thus achieving the wages, benefits and job security they crave... and in many cases deserve.

3.  Students might see lower tuition bills... and they might even get to see their faculty once in a awhile.

I'm struggling to see what's bad about this idea.

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