Volume 126, No. 46
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
OPINION
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DEFUNCT ADJUNCTS
Faculty face issues with compensation, limited career pathways
Jenny Morse, a PhD adjunct professor, explains an assignment to one of her classes. PHOTO BY NATALIE DYER COLLEGIAN
By Seth Bodine @sbodine120
At Colorado State University, adjunct faculty face challenges with work compensation, are under represented in faculty council and receive little to no teaching evaluation. About 43 percent of teachers are adjunct professors at CSU, according to Dan Bush, vice provost of faculty affairs. In 2012, 22 percent of CSU’s faculty were special and temporary teachers, according to a report in the Collegian.
However, 60 percent of undergraduate classes are taught by non-tenure track faculty, meaning they are hired temporarily or on a contractual basis, according to the 2014-15 report of the non-tenure track survey at CSU. A total of 19 percent of courses are taught by other staff such as graduate students and administrators. According to the 2015-16 CSU Factbook, out of a total of 1,789 teaching faculty, 721 are non-tenure track. Forty percent of the non-tenure track faculty have
been at the University for over 10 years, according to Jenny Morse, chair of the Faculty Council’s Standing Committee on non-tenure track faculty. This large percentage of adjuncts is common at universities. At a national level, 70 percent of instructional staff positions are held by non-tenure track faculty according to the American Association of University Professors. Adjunct pay, representation and hiring processes Despite their large presence at University, there is a discrepancy between how non-tenure
track and tenure track faculty are treated. The most distinguishable difference is pay. The average full-time temporary instructor in the College of Liberal Arts on a nine-month appointment is paid $37,937, according to the 2015-16 CSU Factbook. An average tenure-track professor on a nine month appointment is paid $118,180. Salaries vary between departments. There is little representation from adjuncts on Faculty Council. Out of the over 90 members of faculty council representatives, there is only one that is an
adjunct: Jenny Morse. Morse, the chair of the Faculty Council’s Standing Committee on non-tenure track faculty, said most departments on campus do not invite non-tenured track faculty to vote on the council, even though last year, policy changed to allow them to vote for their department faculty representatives. Morse said she does not believe departments have implemented the change, and adjunct’s ability to vote largely depends on how the department codes are written. see ADJUNCTS on page 14 >>
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