The "adjunct problem" is just one manifestation of the structure/dynamic of the university system as a whole.
Merit systems suck! Positions should be filled by putting all the applications in a basket, throwing themn out a second-story window, and have a six-year old try to catch them as they fall. The first one he catches has a tenured appointment as of that moment, with guraranteed raises and promotions on a seinority system. Books published only after receiving approval from 2/3s of the department. Articles must be first read to the department before being submitted to journals. One article every four years AT MOST. There's too damn much stuff being published for anyone to get any good out of it. Pressure for doing research to come from social pressure from colleagues. Make life a little miserable for the laggards but promote them anyhow. That would be just a start. We're not going to do it, but I think it offers a sueful lens through which to examine what we are doing. Carrol Jeffrey Fisher wrote: > > agree with all the follow-up comments on this. > > i would just add to michael's point that it's even worse when you're > talking about one course, or even two courses. people will move for > one-year full-time positions, but not for a course. > > i'm of two minds about the departmental community part. on the one > hand, you don't want to feel like you're not a "real" member of the > department; on the other, you're not, and it seems a bit much to > expect that kind of participation out of adjuncts who aren't given a > meaningful stake in the proceedings. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
