Pullias Center Director to Participate in June 9 Webinar on COVID and Non-Tenure-Track Faculty

Adrianna Kezar, Director of the Pullias Center, is participating in a special webinar titled “The Gig Academy and COVID-19: Implications for the Future” on June 9, 2020 at 9am PT (noon ET).   In the recently published book The Gig Academy: Mapping Labor in the Neoliberal University, Adrianna Kezar and her co-authors describe and critique the restructuring of all academic labor […]

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State of the Faculty

Daniel Scott, Jude Paul Matias Dizon, Adrianna Kezar (2019)   The report explores the issues and trends that have affected faculty in the United States to provide a snapshot from varied sources about the state of the profession. Topics covered include the future job market, faculty accountability policies, shared governance, tenure, unionization, non-tenure track faculty, salaries, and benefits.  The report […]

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National Trends for Faculty Composition Over Time

The Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success This report is a review of changes in the number and proportions of non-tenure-track faculty as a segment of the professoriate over the past 40 years, including differences by sector and discipline. Categories: Delphi Project

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Changing Faculty Workforce Models

Adrianna Kezar In this TIAA-CREF Insitute paper, Kezar describes the trends that have led to the dramatic change in faculty workforce models and outlines several new models that have emerged. Categories: Delphi Project

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Unbundling Versus Designing Faculty Roles

American Council on Education’s Presidential Innovation Laboratory (2014) This paper, which is a part of PIL’s Presidential Innovation Paper series, explores current conversations about the changing role of college and university faculty, the so-called “unbundling” or “disaggregation” of the faculty role. The editor acknowledges and thanks Adrianna Kezar, Sean Gehrke, and Daniel Maxey for their contributions toward this paper. Categories: Delphi Project

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Report of the Task Force to Recommend Best Practices for Non-Tenure-Track Instructional Faculty

California State University, Dominguez Hills (2018) This report presents a strong example of a policy-guiding document for campuses considering making changes to support non-tenure-track faculty, or campuses that have already begun. It presents the purpose, methods, process, and results of the task force’s evaluation process. Categories: Delphi Project, Student Success, Policymaking, Guides

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Delphi Example Practices Villanova University

The Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success (2017) This example practice is intended to cultivate and share knowledge about positive practices that have been implemented on real college and university campuses to provide information to individuals and groups on other campuses that are beginning to consider changes on their own campuses. The example here includes: Collaborative Efforts […]

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Delphi Example Practices University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success (2017) This example practice is intended to cultivate and share knowledge about positive practices that have been implemented on real college and university campuses to provide information to individuals and groups on other campuses that are beginning to consider changes on their own campuses. The example here includes: University of […]

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Delphi Example Practices University of California System

The Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success (2017) This example practice is intended to cultivate and share knowledge about positive practices that have been implemented on real college and university campuses to provide information to individuals and groups on other campuses that are beginning to consider changes on their own campuses. The example here includes: University Council […]

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