1/27/2012: Or maybe not. Reality check from Rutgers
Who’s right and who’s wrong? The bottom line is that it doesn’t matter, since the administration has lost the trust of its own professors, who routinely perceive it as incompetent, venal and corrupt. As Eaton and her colleagues put it, “The administration has violated our trust and we have lost confidence in its ability to properly manage university resources.”
Sound familiar? There’s a sports problem too, of course.
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Appwrently at rutgers, only ‘permanent’ faculty are in the bargaining unit according to this memo of agreement on salary deferrals on rutgers union website:
Within 180 days from the ratification of this MOA, Rutgers will conduct an audit of Type 4 positions to determine whether Type 4 positions are being used in lieu of positions which should be filled by permanent employees who should be in the URA-AFT negotiations unit.
UO established “Career” NTTF as a response to exactly this problem – an over reliance and abuse of the adjunct faculty designation – many who had taught here for years with no job protection or security.
Dog says
well yes, in principle this is a good move but in practice there
has been no consistent signal from Academic Affairs about what kind
of person qualifies for “Career” and who doesn’t. Our department
has asked about every 3 weeks for the last 6 months and have gotten
different answers each time that range from “any adjunct is a career”
to “no one qualifies to be a career”.
Its a microcosm for the UO – we can come up with good policy on paper
but our implementation and oversight skills generally suck.