External Resources for Fixed-Term Faculty

American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has a page on contingent faculty. The association’s publication, Academe Online devoted its November-December 2008 issue devoted to “The New Majority: Contingent Faculty Fighting for Equity.”

Coalition on the Academic Workforce, “One Faculty Serving All Students: An Issue Brief,” February 2010 National Education Association has also published many reports and studies on contingent faculty issues Article: Nancy Van Note Chism, “Editor’s Notes,” (introduction to special issue devoted to “Faculty at the Margins”), New Directions in Higher Education 2008, Issue 143 (Autumn (Fall) 2008): 1-7.

• Article: Amanda Suniti Niskodé-Dossett, “Summary and Recommendations” (concluding article in a special issue devoted to “Faculty at the Margins”), New Directions in Higher Education 2008, Issue 143 (Autumn (Fall) 2008): 109-14.
• Book: Roger G. Baldwin and Jay L. Chronister, Teaching without Tenure: Policies and Practices for a New Era (Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2001), available electronically via UNC libraries.
• Book: John G. Cross and Edie N. Goldenberg, Off-Track Profs: Nontenured Teachers in Higher Education (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009).