Rec'd w/ technical glitch.  --gw
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Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 14:33:00 -0500
From: "Wallace, Danny" <[log in to unmask]>

Dear Colleagues,

Hereÿÿs what preliminary analysis of the most recent ALISE statistics 
reveals:


  * In the fall of 2011, reporting schools had a total of 959 full-time 
faculty and 1,012 part-time faculty.  Part-time faculty accounted for 325 
FTE.
  * In the fall of 2011, full-time faculty were responsible for 1,027 
required courses and 1,372 elective courses.  Part-time faculty were 
responsible for 384 required courses and 1,045 elective courses.
  * The ALISE statistics do not provide data on the numbers of students 
taught by full-time vs. part-time faculty and do not distinguish between 
courses taught by graduate students as part-time faculty and courses 
taught by other part-time faculty.

Note that these are preliminary data and corrections to the data may yield 
differing final results.

Danny



On 2/4/12 7:50 PM, "Gretchen Whitney" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Greetings all,
    A deeply disturbing read, and worth your attention.  Whether faculties
like it or not, adjuncts and graduate students (whatever you call them,
that is, non-tenured and non-tenure track teachers) are teaching the
majority of university students at both the undergraduate and graduate
level.  They are indeed the New Faculty Majority. This is a major shift
from the late 1960s, when a student would not run into a graduate student
or asst prof at the teaching level.  I know that I never did at UNC-CH or
UM. And these were great universities, both for teaching and research.
    In terms of LIS education, undergraduate courses in information sciences
are being tossed off to graduate students AFAICT as minor contributions to
the university mission, as are introductory courses at the Masters level
in the information sciences.
    I would love to see some numbers here - who at what rank is teaching
who or what? Is ALISE collecting this data?

Ë  --gw

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Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 08:34:24 -0500
From: Lorna Peterson <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [ALISEadjunct] Fw: New Faculty Majority Summit

Inside Higher Education has a thorough essay on this by Modern Languages
ËAssociation president Michael Berube:

http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2012/02/01/essay-summit-adjunct-leaders

I highly recommend this sobering read.

lp

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