The 5/5 workload policy is officially off the table. This is a massive win for our department and our students. We will keep watching to ensure it stays that way.
January 9, 2015
Final supporters
Instructors in the ASU English
Department are valuable professionals who service the English Department, the
university, and the students in positive ways.
In the English department we provide necessary department service that adds to
both the visibility of and impact of the English Department within the
university. Instructors serve on committees, create and execute community
engagement events, acts as mentors to new Instructors and TAs, teach required
courses, build curriculum, support digital innovation, and foster
interdisciplinary instruction and collaboration.
For the students and the university, we offer retention support services for
the college's most at risk populations: first-year students, international
students, and "remedial" students. Because our courses are designed to
foster close relationships with students, we have the ability to see the signs
of "unstable" or "troubled" students before the these
students become a concern to themselves, their success, and/or the university.
Furthermore, we act as mentors often providing students counseling and mental
support (or referrals to counseling). Many of our Instructors have answered the
call of ASU to innovate and create changemakers, and as a result, we design
curriculum that allows students to create meaningful and innovative projects
that will represent both the university and the students as being dynamic.
However, the instructor value to the university, English Department, and
students is being diminished. Please visit our website for details.
https://asuagainst55.wordpress.com/
Currently the instructors teach a 4/4 load (80% teach, 20% service/professional
development). To deal with the ASU English Department’s budgeting issues, Instructors
have been asked to begin teaching a 5/5, 100% teaching load, beginning in the
fall of 2015. We believe this is unfair and untenable. Current Instructor jobs
are valued at $14,000 under the national average, and adding increased workload
without additional pay places a heavy burden on one of the most exploited ranks
of ASU English Faculty. Furthermore, as our jobs entail teaching most of the
Freshman class, we believe that upping the courseload and workload will
tremendously impact the ability for Instructors to deliver personal,
process-based, one-on-one writing instruction to students. This, we believe
will have an impact on students’ success and retention rates.
Please sign this petition to support Instructors ability to maintain a 4/4 (80% teaching, 20% service and professional development) load. While this doesn't improve the Instructor job (which is currently paid $14,000 under the national average), supporting ASU Instructors fight against exploitation is a step in the right direction. We believe this is the only way instructors can truly be effective colleagues, mentors, leaders, and innovators.
Updates
Reached 500 supporters
December 19, 2014
December 18, 2014
The momentum is undeniable. This level of support proves our value to the department.
Reached 100 supporters
December 15, 2014
359 Comments
A 5/5 workload is another ridiculous expectation by ASU that not only diminishes the quality of education of the students but the morale of the instructors who are forced to meet this load or lose their jobs. Forcing instructors to teach 5/5 is a lose/lose proposition.
This will lead to teachers leaving the profession by the dozens. How can someone get out of a 5/5 job if they have no time for professional development in order to stay competitive in the job market? They are completely stuck, and screwed.
This is not beneficial to student AT ALL. The higher the teaching load, the more exhausted instructors are, and the less attention they are able to give to individual students. This 5/5 nonsense embodies all that is wrong with higher education today. Shameful!
Instructors should be recognized and valued for their service to the university, not punished and used as a means of making up a budget shortfall. ASU itself has noted that decreased class size and overall student total increase retention.
25% more work without any increase in pay? Are you kidding? Apart from the exploitation of your staff, consider the cost to academic quality: if you go to a 5/5 load, you pretty much give up on university-level instruction and become a glorified high school.
All ASU contingent faculty need a real raise to represent their tremendous amount of work they put in for this university.
Please provide your teachers with adequate pay for the work requested.
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The 5/5 workload policy is officially off the table. This is a massive win for our department and our students. We will keep watching to ensure it stays that way.
January 9, 2015
Final supporters
Instructors in the ASU English
Department are valuable professionals who service the English Department, the
university, and the students in positive ways.
In the English department we provide necessary department service that adds to
both the visibility of and impact of the English Department within the
university. Instructors serve on committees, create and execute community
engagement events, acts as mentors to new Instructors and TAs, teach required
courses, build curriculum, support digital innovation, and foster
interdisciplinary instruction and collaboration.
For the students and the university, we offer retention support services for
the college's most at risk populations: first-year students, international
students, and "remedial" students. Because our courses are designed to
foster close relationships with students, we have the ability to see the signs
of "unstable" or "troubled" students before the these
students become a concern to themselves, their success, and/or the university.
Furthermore, we act as mentors often providing students counseling and mental
support (or referrals to counseling). Many of our Instructors have answered the
call of ASU to innovate and create changemakers, and as a result, we design
curriculum that allows students to create meaningful and innovative projects
that will represent both the university and the students as being dynamic.
However, the instructor value to the university, English Department, and
students is being diminished. Please visit our website for details.
https://asuagainst55.wordpress.com/
Currently the instructors teach a 4/4 load (80% teach, 20% service/professional
development). To deal with the ASU English Department’s budgeting issues, Instructors
have been asked to begin teaching a 5/5, 100% teaching load, beginning in the
fall of 2015. We believe this is unfair and untenable. Current Instructor jobs
are valued at $14,000 under the national average, and adding increased workload
without additional pay places a heavy burden on one of the most exploited ranks
of ASU English Faculty. Furthermore, as our jobs entail teaching most of the
Freshman class, we believe that upping the courseload and workload will
tremendously impact the ability for Instructors to deliver personal,
process-based, one-on-one writing instruction to students. This, we believe
will have an impact on students’ success and retention rates.
Please sign this petition to support Instructors ability to maintain a 4/4 (80% teaching, 20% service and professional development) load. While this doesn't improve the Instructor job (which is currently paid $14,000 under the national average), supporting ASU Instructors fight against exploitation is a step in the right direction. We believe this is the only way instructors can truly be effective colleagues, mentors, leaders, and innovators.
Updates
Reached 500 supporters
December 19, 2014
December 18, 2014
The momentum is undeniable. This level of support proves our value to the department.
Reached 100 supporters
December 15, 2014
359 Comments
If you want quality education, you have to give professors time to grade, research, and interact with students. For comp classes, 5/5 strips faculty of being able to teach and engage meaningfully and still research and have a life.
A 5/5 workload is another ridiculous expectation by ASU that not only diminishes the quality of education of the students but the morale of the instructors who are forced to meet this load or lose their jobs. Forcing instructors to teach 5/5 is a lose/lose proposition.
This will lead to teachers leaving the profession by the dozens. How can someone get out of a 5/5 job if they have no time for professional development in order to stay competitive in the job market? They are completely stuck, and screwed.
This is not beneficial to student AT ALL. The higher the teaching load, the more exhausted instructors are, and the less attention they are able to give to individual students. This 5/5 nonsense embodies all that is wrong with higher education today. Shameful!
Instructors should be recognized and valued for their service to the university, not punished and used as a means of making up a budget shortfall. ASU itself has noted that decreased class size and overall student total increase retention.
25% more work without any increase in pay? Are you kidding? Apart from the exploitation of your staff, consider the cost to academic quality: if you go to a 5/5 load, you pretty much give up on university-level instruction and become a glorified high school.
All ASU contingent faculty need a real raise to represent their tremendous amount of work they put in for this university.
Please provide your teachers with adequate pay for the work requested.
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If you want quality education, you have to give professors time to grade, research, and interact with students. For comp classes, 5/5 strips faculty of being able to teach and engage meaningfully and still research and have a life.