AFT FACE - AFT Releases National Survey of Part-time & Adjunct Faculty

AFT Releases National Survey of Part-time & Adjunct Faculty

Friday, 19 March 2010

The latest report from AFT Higher Education, American Academic: A National Survey of Part-time/Adjunct Faculty, has just been released. Conducted by Peter Hart Research Associates, this national survey of part-time/ adjunct faculty examines:

who part-time/adjunct faculty are;
the conditions under which they work; and,
how they view their work and the challenges they face on campus.

The survey demonstrates that part-time/adjunct faculty are a diverse group. And, while they are committed to their teaching and eager to serve students, most express concerns about working conditions.

"What is happening in our colleges and universities today is directly linked to our country's economic future" stated AFT President Randi Weingarten. "Adjunct and part-time faculty play such a critical role in educating our college students and we must work to ensure that they are fully supported."

The survey is a national sample of 500 part-time and adjunct faculty employed in two- and four-year public and private nonprofit higher education institutions.

Download the full report.
Read the press release.

Posted by: Vanessa Vaile on 21/03/10 11:53:09
To be comprehensive, shouldn't the survey include part time/adjunct faculty teaching in accredited for-profit institutions?
Lecturer (still and since 1984)
Posted by: Hoppingmadjunct on 22/03/10 08:25:23
AFT is to be commended for paying attention to the long-neglected faculty who's become the majority now. But attempts to quantify the complexities of human satisfaction and motivation in yes/no, either/or terms risk inaccuracy to the point of irrelevance, even when qualified later, as AFT does attempt to do in this report. For example, the majority of adjuncts (57 percent) who said that they're in their jobs primarily because they like teaching, not for the money. That applies to me, but it doesn't obviate my outrage at making less than $15,000 for teaching some 150 students a year while full-time colleagues are making three times that for teaching the exact same courses. Beware the power of numbers to misemphasize and redirect the focus from faculty equity. That 57% might seem to indicate that we're OK with our low pay rather than, as AFT's report does care to point out, that we're committed to our profession IN SPITE of the poor working conditions.

So I'd urge readers of this report to similarly scrutinize every single one of its quantifications.
Posted by: Raye Robertson on 22/03/10 08:40:03
Thanks so much for this information -- it speaks volumes!
Lecturer (always)
Posted by: CloseReader on 22/03/10 04:51:26
This sentence from the report astounded me: "Faculty members [the part-timers surveyed] have varying degrees of seniority at the institutions where they work." What's meant, as becomes clearer throughout the paragraph, is that these faculty members have worked at their institutions for varying lengths of time. As any part-time faculty member anywhere and any unionist knows, the LACK of seniority among contract employees is a huge matter of inequity and concern. The longest-serving of my current part-time colleagues has been working for over 30 years: informally, we all as well as his supervisors know he has that kind of seniority. But as those same supervisors tell him every time schedules are in doubt and contract letters being sent out, under the employment agreement that his full-timer-dominated union has negotiated, he HAS no more seniority than the latest hire: none more than the expiration date on his current contract.
That the compilers of this survey seem unaware of the distinction between those two meanings of the very basic term seniority should call into question the precision and usefulness of the rest of this survey.
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