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Fighting to be Fired (But Only with Just Cause): The Unionization of Nontenure-Track Faculty
- Dissent
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 52, Number 1, Winter 2005 (whole No. 218)
- pp. 72-76
- 10.1353/dss.2005.0018
- Article
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In the last thirty years, the share of nontenure-track faculty appointments in higher education has increased dramatically. According to the American Association of University Professors, 96 percent of all new faculty appointments in U.S. colleges and universities in 1969 were tenure-track; by the 1990s, only half of new appointments were tenure-track, and only half of these positions were full-time.