4/14/2014
As Universities increasingly rely on adjunct and contract faculty to fulfill teaching missions, they confront challenges to their academic cultures. Adjunt faculty are generally paid lower salaries and have lesser governance rights than their tenured and tenure-track colleagues. At George Washington University the Board is facing into these challenges. They are asking whether there are bullying behaviors toward adjunct faculty that need correction. The Board is also exploring how academic freedom rights and governance responsibilities could appropriately be extended to adjunct faculty. More information on the following insidehighered.com article here.