Adrianna Kezar in Inside Higher Ed: A Non-Tenure-Track Profession?

Pullias co-director Adrianna Kezar was quoted in Inside Higher Ed about the growing numbers of non-tenure-track faculty at colleges and universities:

Some 73 percent of all faculty positions are off the tenure track, according to a new analysis of federal databy the American Association of University Professors.

“For the most part, these are insecure, unsupported positions with little job security and few protections for academic freedom,” reads AAUP’s “Data Snapshot: Contingent Faculty in U.S. Higher Ed.” The report is based on the most recent data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, from 2016….

Adrianna Kezar, professor and director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California, said Thursday that AAUP’s analysis is “super important” because “people are definitely not getting that this means a huge decline in academic freedom and how this fundamentally reshifts the mission, goals and culture of academy.”

She added, “I bring it up all the time, but people do not seem to see this connection.”

Read the full article at Inside Higher Ed. Kezar is the principal investigator of the Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success.