AAUP sez contingent faculty should play a broader role in governance

English: Pin created by and for members of the AAUP chapter at Utica College during contract dispute beginning May 2008. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/contingent-faculty-should-play-broader-role-in-governance-aaup-says/54461?cid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en

http://chronicle.com/article/AAUP-Proposes-Giving/132663/

Access the full report here:

http://www.aaup.org/report/governance-inclusion

I might add that perhaps contingent faculty should play a larger role in the distribution of the college payroll too.  What full-time, tenured faculty --- most of whom are liberal by all reports --- don't like to recognize is that, while many of them receive handsome salaries and generous benefits, the teaching-load slack is picked up by adjuncts who earn a pittance, generally receive no benefits, and frankly are looked down upon by their tenured colleagues.  This is the largest disparity requiring a remedy, if fairness to adjuncts is your goal.

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