Key to understanding this backlash is Ithaca’s somewhat unusual faculty
structure, and where the cuts are concentrated. No tenure-track or
tenured faculty jobs are at stake, but many departments’
non-tenure-track ranks are being wiped out.
Ithaca has part-time adjuncts, many of whom are losing their one- or
two-class-per-term assignments. Ithaca also has a core teaching staff of
ranked, non-tenure-track professors working on multiyear contracts. Many
of these professors were recruited through national searches and --
under the premise of steady employment -- became deeply involved in
curriculum design, shared governance, service work and student
activities. So with many of these professors losing their jobs, as well,
there’s a pervasive feeling that Ithaca is gutting its academics and its
campus culture.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/02/08/growing-resistance-against-cuts-ithaca
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