Equality for Contingent Faculty: Overcoming the Two-Tier System

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Contents Preface   1 Keith Hoeller Part I: Case Studies of Progressive Change 1 Organizing for Equality within the Two-Tier System: The Experience of the California Faculty Association    9 Elizabeth Hoffman and John Hess 2 The Case for Instructor Tenure: Solving Contingency and Protecting Academic Freedom in Colorado    28 Don Eron 3 Online Teaching and the Deskilling of Academic Labor in Canada    65 Natalie Sharpe and Dougal MacDonald Part II: The Two-Tier System in Academe 4 Organizing the New Faculty Majority: The Struggle to Achieve Equality for Contingent Faculty, Revive Our Unions, and Democratize Higher Education    77 Richard Moser 5 The Academic Labor System of Faculty Apartheid    116 Keith Hoeller 6 The Question of Academic Unions: Community (or Conflict) of Interest?     156 Jack Longmate 7 Do College Teachers Have to Be Scholars?     173 Frank Donoghue Part III: Roadmaps for Achieving Equality 8 The New Abolition Movement    191 Lantz Simpson 9 The Vancouver Model of Equality for College Faculty Employment    200 Frank Cosco Selected Bibliography on the Contingent Faculty Movement    227 Keith Hoeller Appendix: Trends in Instructional Staff Employment Status    235 Acknowledgments   241 Contributors   243 Index   247 viii ...