Off-Track Profs: Nontenured Teachers in Higher Education (MIT Press)

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Nontenured Teachers in Higher Education. The Ominous Rise of the Adjuncts. The same sort of impasse arises with academic freedom. For schools without such resources, redistributing salaries and teaching loads would reduce their ability to compete for prestige-enhancing academic superstars. But they don't actually know what's happening on their campuses. The authors find that the modern university competes with its peers on almost every conceivable front—the success of varsity sports teams; the size and luxuriousness of dormitories, cafeterias, recreational centers, and other amenities; the success of fundraising campaigns and endowment investment strategies; even the number of iPods among the student body. As Cross and Goldenberg note, universities occasionally attempt to boost their prestige by shifting en masse from non-tenure-track to tenure-track faculty.