Teaching without Tenure by Roger G Baldwin

Teaching without Tenure by Roger G Baldwin

The growing use of full-time non-tenure-track faculty represents a controversial change in the pattern of staffing colleges and universities in the US. This volume offers an examination of this important phenomenon, examining the issue from the perspectives of both institutions and faculty members. Roger G. Baldwin and Jay L. Chronister offer a systematic look at who non-tenure-track faculty are, the roles they play in higher education, and the policies that control the terms and conditions of their employment. The book utilizes findings from a national study of full-time non-tenure-track faculty, including survey data, policy analysis findings and information gathered from site visits with faculty and administrators at a cross-section of four-year colleges and universities across the United States. The study emerges in an environment in which many constituents of higher education have begun to question the feasibility of retaining the academic tenure system. Baldwin and Chronister discuss the internal and external factors influencing an institution's decision to hire non-tenure-track faculty and make recommendations for policies and practices that can support the work and career development of faculty in these positions. Designed to assist faculty, academic leaders and institutions, the book examines developments challenging the status quo in the American academic profession and offers guidance as higher education moves into an uncertain future.

A well-researched, balanced study of these controversial practices
—Virginia Quarterly Review
Most chairs and deans . . . need support and guidance for orienting, supporting, and evaluating non-tenure-track faculty. Campuses could start by sharing this book.
—Deborah Hirsch, Connection
The authors' work is thorough and clear. It is imbued with an appropriate balance of concern for both the working life of full-time non-tenure-track faculty and for the issues that push institutions toward this form of faculty relationship.
—Michael R. Sawdey, Academic Leader
The book is a reliable and exhaustive examination of its subject.
—John Palattella, University Business

Roger G. Baldwin is a professor of higher education at the College of William and Mary. He is coauthor of Faculty Collaboration: Enhancing the Quality of Scholarship and Teaching. Jay L. Chronister is a professor of education, emeritus, at the University of Virginia. He is the coauthor of Incentive Early Retirement Programs for Faculty: Innovative Responses to a Changing Environment.

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ISBN 13	9780801865022
ISBN 10	0801865026
Titel	Teaching without Tenure
Autor	Roger G Baldwin
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Verlag	Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2001-03-22
Seitenanzahl	240
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