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]>
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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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