Contingency/Tenure

For information about unionization efforts of contingent faculty, see our Union page. This page will focus on workplace conditions related to faculty rank.

The Provost’s Office in February 2018 created a page on their website “to consolidate relevant information about SCU’s processes, policies, and resources” for adjunct faculty and lecturers. You will be prompted to enter your SCU login to enter the page.

The National Picture

Adrianna Kezar and Daniel Maxey, The Changing Academic Workforce,
Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges: Trusteeship Magazine (May/June 2013).

The Picture at SCU

Articles

• David Gooblar, 3 Ways Colleges Can Help Faculty Members Avoid Burnout, The Chronicle of Higher Education (17 April 2018).

• • • Gretchen M. Reevy and Grace Deason, Predictors of Depression, Stress, and Anxiety among Non-Tenure Track Faculty, Frontiers in Psychology 5:701 (8 July 2014)
    • Matthew T. Seipel and Lisa M. Larson, Supporting Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Well-Being, Journal of Career Assessment 26:1 (22 November 2016) 154-71

 

• Annemarie Pérez, Instead of Gaslighting Adjuncts, We Could Help Them, Chronicle Vitae (16 April 2018).

• Don Eron, On the AAUP, Two Distinct Tiers, and Incentivizing Institutions to Hire Part-Time Faculty, Academe Blog (28 September 2017).

• Leonard Cassuto, A Tenure Track for Teachers?, The Chronicle of Higher Education (7 May 2017).

• Robert Samuels, Professional Insecurity in a Fraught Environment, Inside Higher Ed (24 April 2017).

• Nell Gluckman, Universities Take Steps to Improve Working Conditions for Adjuncts, The Chronicle of Higher Education (5 April 2017).

• Joseph Fruscione, What Parents Need to Know about College Faculty, SAS Confidential: A Blog by @AcademicsSay (4 December 2015); originally appeared on the PBS NewsHour.

• Jacqueline Thomsen, Summer Unemployment Reality, Insider Higher Ed (15 July 2015).
• Tamar Lewin, Tenure Firmly in Place, But Colleges Grow Wary of Lasting Commitments, New York Times (6 June 2015).

• Nanette Asimov, Fewer Professors, More Managers Work on Cal State Campuses, SFGate (24 March 2015).

• Andrew Mortazavi, At 100 Colleges around the Country, Adjuncts Take Action to Demand an End to Precarity and Low Pay, In These Times (26 February 2015).

• Noam Chomsky (transcript prepared by Robin J. Sowards), Noam Chomsky: Corporate Business Models Are Hurting American Universities, Salon.com (10 October 2014).

• Colleen Flaherty, More “Intentionality” Needed, Inside Higher Ed (23 June 2014).

• David Perry, Faculty Refuse to See Themselves as Workers. Why? Vitae (22 May 2014).

• Scott Jaschik, Church and Tenure, Inside Higher Ed (5 May 2014) – on a recent Kentucky Supreme Court decision about firing tenured professors under the ministerial exception.

• LABOR ISSUES IN CATHOLIC ELEMENTARY & SECONDARY EDUCATION
  • Patricia Miller, #TeachAcceptance and the Fight for the Soul of SF’s Catholic Schools, Religion Dispatches (27 February 2015).
  • C. W. Nevius, Don’t Let S.F. Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone’s Charm Fool You, San Francisco Chronicle (25 February 2015).
  • Chris Lyford, Archdiocese Responds to Chronicle Article on Editorial Board Meeting, Archdiocese of San Francisco (24 February 2015).
  • Kevin Fagan, S.F. Archbishop Reassessing Strict Morals Code for Teachers, SFGate (25 February 2015).
  • Jill Tucker, S. F. Archbishop’s Morality Clauses Run Counter to Pope’s Message, San Francisco Chronicle (4 February 2015).
  • Archdiocese Releases Statement on Church Teachings, Practice in High Schools, Catholic San Francisco (4 February 2015).
  • Heather Knight, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone Spells Out Schools’ Sex Doctrine, SFGate 3 February 2015).
  • Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, Archbishop Cordileone’s Letter to High School Teachers, Archdiocese of San Francisco (February 2015).
  • The Most Reverend Michael C. Barber, SJ, Bishop of Oakland, Letter Re: Teacher Contract Update, Diocese of Oakland (2 February 2015).
  • Jill Tucker, Oakland Bishop Puts Morality Clause Thoughts in Writing, SFGate (30 June 2014).
  • Lisa Fernandez and Jodi Hernandez, Oakland Diocese Bishop Will “Clarify” “Morality Clause,” NBC Bay Area (28 May 2014).
  • Susan Candiotti and Chris Welch, A Litany of “Thou Shalt Nots”: Catholic Teachers Challenge Morality Clause, CNNLiving (31 May 2014).
  • Jen Hayden, Would Pope Francis Sign the New Catholic Teacher Contract?, Daily Kos (14 May 2014).
  • Frank Bruni, Lessons in Catholic Judgment, New York Times Sunday Review (10 May 2014).
  • Joe Garofoli, Oakland Diocese Requiring Educators to Conform to Church Teachings, SFGate (9 May 2014).
  • S. Parker Yesko, Belmont Catholic School Community Outraged after Gay Rights Figure Bumped from Appearance, The Examiner (4 May 2014).
  • Joshua J. McElwee, Contracts that Define Teachers as Ministers Raise Labor Questions, National Catholic Reporter (28 April 2014).
  • Alia Wong, New Hawaii Catholic Schools Contract: Gay Teachers Can Be Fired, Honolulu Civil Beat (27 March 2014).

• Noam Chomsky, How America’s Great University System Is Getting Destroyed, AlterNet (28 February 2014) – faculty are increasingly hired on the Wal-Mart model as temps.

• House Committee on Education and the Workforce Democratic Staff, The Just-In-Time Professor, (January 2014).

• Colleen Flaherty, Congress Takes Note, Inside Higher Ed (24 January 2014).

• Daniel Kovalik, Death of an Adjunct, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (18 September 2013); republished on Huffington Post.

• Adrianna Kezar and Daniel Maxey, The Changing Academic Workforce, Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges: Trusteeship Magazine (May/June 2013).

• Pew Research, Is College Worth It?, Chapter 4: Views of College Presidents, Pew Research: Social & Demographic Trends (15 May 2011), online.

• In the section of the page on “Faculty Tenure,” Pew Research presents the result of their poll of college presidents about the ideal make-up of the faculty:

Source: Online-PhD-Programs.org