This is the discussion area for the HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues forum. Please feel free to join, post calls for papers, new initiatives for Part-time Faculty activism, and questions about contingency and pedagogy to the group!
Executive Committee:
Maria Maisto, Past Chair Jan. 2017
Lee Skallerup Bessette, Chair, Jan. 2018
Virginia Cooper, Secretary, Jan. 2019
Maria Grewe, Jan 2020
Robin Sowards, Jan 2021
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Pamela Lim-McAlister started the topic Connecting with Colleagues in the discussion
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 2 months, 4 weeks agoHello, everyone! I am honored to have been nominated as a candidate for the forum on HEP Part-time and Contingent Faculty Issues and I wanted to briefly introduce myself before MLA voting opens this week. As a Spanish instructor and contingent employee, I have been a “freeway flier” and “roads scholar” traveling among institutes of higher learnin…[Read more]
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Feisal G. Mohamed posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 3 months agoColleagues: Please consider signing the petition ‘1% for Adjuncts,’ which would have the MLA annually set aside 1% of its assets to support adjunct unionization.
And, just as importantly, please share the petition widely: on email lists, via social media, and the like.
Full petition here: https://forms.gle/qgjBJi4KMjh2Tj2Q6With best wishes,
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David Laurence deposited Tenure in 2017: A Per Institution View in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months agoAs advocacy to increase tenure-track academic career opportunities for PhD recipients and reverse institutions’ abuse of an immiserated class of adjunct instructors has long deplored, the portion of the faculty with tenure or on the tenure track has declined to under a third of the academic workforce, while the segment with part-time appointments…[Read more]
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Stefan Vogel started the topic Study participation request in the discussion
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months agoDear HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues members,
My name is Stefan Vogel. I am a PhD student in the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program at the University of Arizona, and I would like to invite you to participate in my dissertation research. In my dissertation project, I focus on the professional development of L2 writing…[Read more]
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Maria Shine Stewart started the topic An Inside HIgher Ed Essay — Just Sharing … Written in July 2016 in the discussion
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 2 years agohttps://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2016/07/21/how-improve-teaching-conditions-adjunct-faculty-members-essay Nothing fancy here, but a dean at one of my schools contacted me after it ran.
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Michelle A. Massé started the topic Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages: 2018 Awards Nominations in the discussion
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThe Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages (WCML) is now accepting submissions for its annual awards. The Caucus is gender-inclusive and welcomes feminist scholarship from all authors. Please note that there are no membership dues for graduate students and for those whose income is below $20,000 a year. For further information about these a…[Read more]
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William Christopher Brown started the topic Book Reviews in the discussion
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe scholarly journal Academic Labor: Research and Artistry has published its latest issue, and it includes a submission from me that reviews two recent books on contingent academic labor: “Reviews of Daniel Davis’s Contingent Academic Labor and Lisa del Rosso’s Confessions of an Accidental…[Read more]
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Maria Shine Stewart started the topic From Candidate Maria Shine Stewart in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoI first observed the starkly different working conditions of full-time and part-time faculty as an English department secretary many years ago. Fast forward 35 years: Too little has changed at too few institutions for larger and larger numbers of adjunct, non-tenure-track, term, or contingent faculty. I teach at up to four northeast Ohio colleges…[Read more]
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Carolyn McCue Goffman deposited Sending Canaries to the Job Market: Ethical Issues in Training Community College Faculty in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 3 years agoThis presentation explores ethical dilemmas for graduate school educators in programs that prepare M.A. students to teach English in community colleges. Such graduate programs attract students and produce strong, enthusiastic teachers, and university administrators value the programs because they draw tuition; however, the job prospects for…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited BOOK REVIEW: Media coverage of Organized Labor in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 3 years agoThe idea that the US media is biased against organized labor may seem too obvious to require comment and research, but the details are quite important to understanding to to communicate more effectively between voices of the labor community and voices of management. The common assumption that labor media coverage became more skewed with the…[Read more]
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Mary Gallucci posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoA sobering look at adjunct faculty: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/28/adjunct-professors-homeless-sex-work-academia-poverty?CMP=share_btn_fb
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David Laurence uploaded the file: Department of Labor Guidance on "Contract" and "Reasonable Assurance" to
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 4 years agoThis 22 December 2016 U. S. Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) provides guidance to states about the interpretation of “contract” and “reasonable assurance of future employment” in determining eligibility for unemployment insurance of adjunct faculty members in higher education. The guidance in this UIPL supersedes…[Read more]
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Kathi Inman Berens replied to the topic Award Winner Kevin Birmingham Speaks About Adjuncts and Exploitiation in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoFantastic speech.
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Maria Maisto started the topic Award Winner Kevin Birmingham Speaks About Adjuncts and Exploitiation in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoFull speech at http://www.kevinbirmingham.net/research/
I accept the Truman Capote Award in this spirit of justice. I would be remiss, therefore, if I did not address another injustice tarnishing the literary critical profession. I am, so far as I can tell, the first adjunct faculty member to receive this award. To be sure, I have one of the…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate deposited Humanities Values Infographic in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThis infographic represents an in-progress attempt by the #Humetrics team at TriangleSCI to pin down values that, if encouraged and incentivized in the academy, would enrich and improve humanities scholarship. It is meant to start a conversation. What are we missing? See more about the process and thinking behind this approach at…[Read more]
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Carol DeGrasse deposited MLA 8 Documentation Presentation in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThis presentation is a slide-show introduction to MLA 8 documentation for classroom use. Reasons for citing, core elements of MLA8 format, and examples are included in the Powerpoint.
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Lenora Hanson started the topic Low-Wage Work: The Boundary Condition of University Labor in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoThis year the MLA Executive Council is sponsoring the roundtable session “Low-Wage Work: The Boundary Condition of University Labor” on Saturday, January 7th from 8:30-9:45 in 103A, Pennsylvania Convention Center. Please share information about this session widely:
Participants include: Laura Goldblatt, Global Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at the…[Read more]
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Caroline Edwards deposited The New Open Access Environment: Innovation in Research, Editing and Publishing in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThis panel was designed to address the convention’s featured issues of the academic profession, publishing & editing, open access, and new technologies. Using a roundtable format, the panel discussed how open access publications are transforming the kind of research that is possible and necessitating new editorial practices. The session hosted an…[Read more]
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Kenneth Pinion started the topic [MLA 2017 CFP] Looking for a Light in the Dark: On Mental Health in Pedagogy in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months ago“Looking for a Light in the Dark: On Mental Health in Humanistic Pedagogy”
This session seeks papers that offer effective strategies for confronting mental health issues amongst educators. Potential topics may include (but not necessarily exclude): the rise in depression amongst graduate students and faculty; the prevalence of mental health iss…[Read more]
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Mary-Beth Brophy started the topic Call for Roundtable Participants: MLA 2017 Convention in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession is planning a roundtable for the 2017 MLA convention in Philadelphia tentatively entitled: “Could this get me fired? Employment rights and risks for just-in-time faculty.”
We’re particularly interested in ensuring that our least job-secure colleagues are represented on the roundtable, so I’d l…[Read more]
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