AERA Task Force on Standards for Part-Time, Adjunct, and Contingent Faculty: An Open Discussion Forum

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

At the February AERA Council meeting the Council approved a Task Force on Standards for Part-Time, Adjunct and Contingent Faculty. The Task Force will be chaired by Professor Adrianna Kezar of the University of Southern California. The Task Force members may be found on the AERA web page along with the charge to the group. The focus of the Task Force is to consider the working conditions for the fastest growing group in academe – part-time, adjunct and contingent faculty, and how that environment might be improved.

This session will be an informal meeting for all members of the association to provide input on the topic and to aid the Task Force in its deliberations. The intent of the Council is for the Task Force to present a draft of their report to the Executive Board in October, and for the Council to discuss the issues at their February, 2013 meeting.

Sub Unit

• AERA Sessions

Chair

• Adrianna Kezar, University of Southern California

Participants

• Stanton Wortham, University of Pennsylvania

• Benjamin Baez, Florida International University

• Sara Goldrick-Rab, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Susan Finley, Washington State University - Vancouver

• Esther S. Merves, New Faculty Majority Foundation