My subunit does in fact use adjuncts. The people we hire as adjuncts are people we also hire as FTEs. They teach 5 courses for their FTE, and then 1-2 more as adjuncts.
Another department’s chair points out that this amounts to discrimination against my discipline: lower division students in it have to have overworked instructors when other students in the same department do not, and my discipline has to produce more student credit hours with less personnel and salary money than other discplines in the unit.
Discuss. How can we frame this to the administration, in such a way that we can get more FTEs? We can get another instructor line, but the instructors we have voted against this since they want to continue adjuncting. I want raises for the instructors and then one or more tenure-track lines.
My step in the meantime is to find out how many departments, or better said disciplines, have the same situation.
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Axé.
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