I just had a thought: yesterday in a discussion of Allan Bloom in my Cultural Studies course, I referred to how people like him during the 1980s culture wars were worried about tenured radicals. So I asked them what they thought that meant. These are mostly seniors and juniors, and they only vaguely had any idea what tenure meant. I have been hearing about and learning about what this article I am sharing from Adam Putz refers to since I entered grad school in the 1990s, the proliferation of non-tenured, non-tenure-track instructors in universities, although the article completes the picture by showing a correlation between this and an increasing number of (I would add often very highly paid) administrators. But the thought I just had is that of course the shift to non-tenure, non-tenure-track instructors is happening so easily and without protest; the consumers of higher education, i.e., the students and their parents, do not know the difference at all anyway. I guess the question is: if they knew, would they care? I think the students, at least, would. thewire/politics/2014/02/universities-are-cutting-tenured-faculty-while-they-load-non-academic-administrators/357858/
Posted on: Sun, 09 Feb 2014 01:21:38 +0000
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