Changing faculty trends, adjunct faculty, The Delphi Project
Created as part of the Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success, the guide is designed for student activists at the undergraduate and graduate level. This population is in a unique position to make a difference in the lives of faculty currently experiencing terrible inequalities and working conditions. The Delphi Project, looking to empower, inform, and leverage all […]
The Delphi Award consists of two $15,000 awards given to two new recipients each year to recognize noteworthy efforts to support non-tenure-track faculty. The Pullias Center for Higher Education in partnership with the Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) today opened applications for the 2020 Delphi Award. The $15,000 cash award is given annually to two individuals or groups who […]
The Association of American Colleges and Universities Annual Meeting took place recently in Washington, D.C. and included a session with winners of the 2019 Delphi Award from Santa Monica College and Penn State. The event was moderated by Adrianna Kezar, Director of the Pullias Center, and Ashley Finley, Senior Advisor to the President and Vice President of Strategic Planning and […]
Teams from Penn State University and Santa Monica College to be honored for innovative support of adjunct faculty in promoting student success The Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education has selected two winners of the Delphi Award for 2019. Collaborative teams from the Penn State University of four year-institutions, and the […]
There is little notice of or conversation about the significant – perhaps catastrophic — employment changes taking place at colleges and universities. After decades of ignoring the adjunctification of faculty, we now see the transformation of almost every employment category in higher education – graduate students, postdocs, research faculty, and staff. These groups are being outsourced, facing contingency and marginalization, just […]
The Pullias Center for Higher Education was awarded an approximately $3M combined National Science Foundation IUSE Grant in collaboration with the Association of American Colleges and Universities over 5 years, with nearly $1m of that targeted for the Pullias Center. The grant will fund the “Scaling Support for Non-tenure Track STEM Faculty through Learning Communities and Design Teams” project. The […]
The “State of the Faculty” report from the Pullias Center for Higher Education is now available. The report’s authors explore the issues and trends that have affected faculty in the United States. The goal of the report is to provide a snapshot from varied sources about the state of the profession. “This report draws from important sources of data, like […]
Pullias Center co-director Adrianna Kezar voices her support for the right of non-tenure-track faculty to collectively bargain. by Adrianna Kezar At the Pullias Center for Higher Education, we firmly believe that public engagement is a responsibility of scholars and part of quality scholarship. With the recent news about the challenges adjunct faculty unions are facing at USC and at other institutions […]
A recent guest blog post by Paula Patch in Inside Higher Ed featured research on non-tenure-track (NTT) faculty by Pullias co-director Adrianna Kezar. Patch writes: First, we have to let NTT faculty tell their own stories in their own words. Sounds easy, but research by Adrianna Kezar and others shows that most studies of NTT faculty are not conducted by NTT faculty themselves. Nor […]
A Pullias Center report titled National Trends for Faculty Composition Over Time, which tracks the growing percentage of non-tenure-track faculty on college and university campuses, was recently featured in an op-ed by Richard A. Greenfield in Inside Higher Ed: The number of tenured and tenure-track faculty members has steadily declined. A 2013 study by the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of […]