For many adjuncts, the first step is to fight for better compensation and benefits. Apart from improving their quality of life, adjuncts believe increased wages will more accurately reflect their value and give them more influence within the university. . . . Kezar recommends that unions suggest alternative hiring models rather than pushing for more tenured positions. She believes that there is a middle ground between the tenured and adjunct roles, such as longer-term salaried contracts with benefits—a norm in many other industries. Many administrators cannot see an alternative that is viable for institutions in financial difficulties, especially in the context of no public support for higher education, she said. Kezar also advocates for universities to do more to equip non-tenure track faculty to do their jobs better by providing more professional development resources. m.theatlantic/business/archive/2014/04/the-adjunct-professor-crisis/361336/
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