Policies that exploit the contingency of contingent faculty members in order to solve logistical problems are bad policies. This change harms faculty and students. It's a bad idea.
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Seth Kahn
11 years ago
Policies that exploit the contingency of contingent faculty members in order to solve logistical problems are bad policies. This change harms faculty and students. It's a bad idea.
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Ana M. Fores Tamayo
11 years ago
As a fellow adjunct faculty from Texas, I share your concern: sign my petition too & tell others there so they read what you're going through & sign! http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/better-pay-for-adjuncts
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Ana M. Fores Tamayo
11 years ago
As a fellow adjunct faculty from Texas, I share your concern: sign my petition too & tell others there so they read what you're going through & sign! http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/better-pay-for-adjuncts
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Judith Van
11 years ago
Good statement!
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Judith Van
11 years ago
Good statement!
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Ryan Skinnell
11 years ago
As an ASU alum, I'm really disappointed to see this treatment of instructors.
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Katherine Heenan
11 years ago
The English department has chosen to solve its budget problems by further exploiting those who teach the courses that kept the department afloat. This is shameful, unfair, and another example of the haves living off the backs of those who have so little.
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Kirsten Wood
11 years ago
The erosion of college education and the exploitation of instructors are both deplorable
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RUTH FEIERTAG
11 years ago
My son will be applying to colleges soon. We'll be looking for schools that treat their adjuncts fairly and pay them a decent wage.
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Chris Anson
11 years ago
Plentiful research shows the negative effects of high class size and section loads on the quality of instruction that writing teachers can provide. It's physically impossible to respond effectively to multiple papers and drafts of students in five sections, not to mention keeping up with individual consultations, class planning, course management, and corresponding with students. Add to that the effects on morale of low pay and status and the usual poor working conditions of NTT faculty and one can't imagine a worse situation. How can a university like ASU so demean and marginalize teachers of THE most important, core learning experience for its students--the development of college-level academic literacy? ASU's accrediting agency ought to play a role here--take away their accreditation until they can provide respectable salaries and working conditions for the NTT writing instructors.
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Susan Schorn
11 years ago
My son is heading to college next year. I wouldn't even consider sending him to an institution that so obviously disdains writing instruction and basic fairness in the workplace.
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Gray Sweeney
11 years ago
cut the pay of the lowest paid hardest working faculty while hireing more special assistants to the president and giving him a $90,000 per year pay raise. Its the corporate model of the new American University, aka Walmart U.
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Anonymous
11 years ago
As a GWAR Coordinator for the CSU system (a system-wide, upper-division writing literacy coordinator), what you are proposing is pedagogically unsound for student literacy gains. I will not even speak to the labor exploitation implicit in this move; I will, however, speak from the position of a literacy coordinator for California's largest state university system, a system commensurate with ASU. Therefore, I staunchly oppose this move based upon pedagogical grounds and note that it defies all recommendations for the maximum course load composition teachers ought to hold for any student literacy advancements (3-4 classes of no more than 18 students is the NCTE's own recommendation and what most universities that care about their students adhere to). Obviously, there are auxiliary labor concerns here too that are troubling.
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Jennifer Michael
11 years ago
As a professor of English at another university, I express my outrage at this pedagogically unsound decision, which violates MLA guidelines among others.
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Craig Gingrich-Philbrook
11 years ago
It's important that you recognize how badly this reflects upon ASU's national reputation. This is obviously an unconscionable load for a composition instructor.
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Chris Blankenship
11 years ago
The increased workload of this change is appalling, and the removal of professional development and service from the responsibilities of the instructors will only serve to isolate NTT faculty even more from the rest of the university. This decision negatively impacts student learning, faculty morale, and the public image of ASU.
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Jacqueline Monkiewicz
11 years ago
I'm an ASU graduate student with the School of Earth & Space Exploration, and I was just informed that I am the recipient of a GPSA teaching award. Unfortunately, the shine has been dimmed considerably by subsequently reading about ASU's treatment of its full-time instructors via the Inside Higher Ed article.
Policies that exploit the contingency of contingent faculty members in order to solve logistical problems are bad policies. This change harms faculty and students. It's a bad idea.
Policies that exploit the contingency of contingent faculty members in order to solve logistical problems are bad policies. This change harms faculty and students. It's a bad idea.
As a fellow adjunct faculty from Texas, I share your concern: sign my petition too & tell others there so they read what you're going through & sign! http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/better-pay-for-adjuncts
As a fellow adjunct faculty from Texas, I share your concern: sign my petition too & tell others there so they read what you're going through & sign! http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/better-pay-for-adjuncts
Good statement!
Good statement!
As an ASU alum, I'm really disappointed to see this treatment of instructors.
The English department has chosen to solve its budget problems by further exploiting those who teach the courses that kept the department afloat. This is shameful, unfair, and another example of the haves living off the backs of those who have so little.
The erosion of college education and the exploitation of instructors are both deplorable
My son will be applying to colleges soon. We'll be looking for schools that treat their adjuncts fairly and pay them a decent wage.
Plentiful research shows the negative effects of high class size and section loads on the quality of instruction that writing teachers can provide. It's physically impossible to respond effectively to multiple papers and drafts of students in five sections, not to mention keeping up with individual consultations, class planning, course management, and corresponding with students. Add to that the effects on morale of low pay and status and the usual poor working conditions of NTT faculty and one can't imagine a worse situation. How can a university like ASU so demean and marginalize teachers of THE most important, core learning experience for its students--the development of college-level academic literacy? ASU's accrediting agency ought to play a role here--take away their accreditation until they can provide respectable salaries and working conditions for the NTT writing instructors.
My son is heading to college next year. I wouldn't even consider sending him to an institution that so obviously disdains writing instruction and basic fairness in the workplace.
cut the pay of the lowest paid hardest working faculty while hireing more special assistants to the president and giving him a $90,000 per year pay raise. Its the corporate model of the new American University, aka Walmart U.
As a GWAR Coordinator for the CSU system (a system-wide, upper-division writing literacy coordinator), what you are proposing is pedagogically unsound for student literacy gains. I will not even speak to the labor exploitation implicit in this move; I will, however, speak from the position of a literacy coordinator for California's largest state university system, a system commensurate with ASU. Therefore, I staunchly oppose this move based upon pedagogical grounds and note that it defies all recommendations for the maximum course load composition teachers ought to hold for any student literacy advancements (3-4 classes of no more than 18 students is the NCTE's own recommendation and what most universities that care about their students adhere to). Obviously, there are auxiliary labor concerns here too that are troubling.
As a professor of English at another university, I express my outrage at this pedagogically unsound decision, which violates MLA guidelines among others.
It's important that you recognize how badly this reflects upon ASU's national reputation. This is obviously an unconscionable load for a composition instructor.
The increased workload of this change is appalling, and the removal of professional development and service from the responsibilities of the instructors will only serve to isolate NTT faculty even more from the rest of the university. This decision negatively impacts student learning, faculty morale, and the public image of ASU.
I'm an ASU graduate student with the School of Earth & Space Exploration, and I was just informed that I am the recipient of a GPSA teaching award. Unfortunately, the shine has been dimmed considerably by subsequently reading about ASU's treatment of its full-time instructors via the Inside Higher Ed article.
This action severely damages my respect for ASU.