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Committee on Part-time, Adjunct or Contingent Labor (March 2012)

Committee Charge

Committee Members

Irvin Peckham, Chair
Elizabeth Allan
Evelyn Beck
Glenn Blalock
Suzanne Carbonaro
John Edlund
Brad Hammer
Rochelle Rodrigo
Robert Samuels
David Schwalm 

This committee is charged to:

  1. Survey the CCCC members who have contingent employment about their working conditions, teaching conditions, and needs.
  2. Identify campuses where there has been improvement in the professional working conditions and conditions of instruction and identify the conditions and processes that led to such improvement.   Disseminate that information the to the membership through FORUM, the CCCC website, or similar venue to aid local strategic action and develop larger strategies.
  3. Identify other professional academic organizations that have substantial interest in issues of part-time, adjunct, or contingent labor. Determine what actions they have engaged in.  Identify potential allies to work with in addressing these issues and in conjunction with the NCTE office approach these organizations to pursue alliances.
  4. Report findings twice yearly to the CCCC Executive Committee.

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Posted By: Anonymous User on 10/21/2009 6:49:11 AM

Brad Hammer here--Just FYI, concerning points 1 and 2 of our committee's charge: As Editor of FORUM, I recently published a call (see the call in the most recent edition of FORUM in CCC) to all contingent faculty to fill out a survey on issues related to contingent labor-- the data that I'm looking for is exactly what our committee needs. The survey is hosted by NCTE at: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/survey.zgi?p=WEB229JDBVGW6B . Please check out the survey and pass the url along to anyone who can promote it as a way of collecting discursive and quantitative data. Also, in regard to point 2 of our charge, since I edit FORUM, can I charge Irvin (or someone else on the committee) to write a short article for FORUM (1500-2500 words) that highlights the work of the committee, promotes the survey, and disseminates our initial findings ? Do I have any takers? Brad

Posted By: Anonymous User on 10/19/2009 12:33:00 PM

Schwalm here. Did you all catch today's CHE report on its survey of adjunct facuolty in the Chicago area? It is of modest value because of its regionalism and lack of a scientific sample. But it is interesting, nevertheless. I wouldn't want to generalize from it.

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Posted By: Shelley Rodrigo on 10/17/2009 11:04:59 PM

testing, testing to see if this will push to an RSS feed (because I subscribed and it wasn't showing anything). Shelley

Posted By: Anonymous User on 10/16/2009 12:39:39 PM

I'm anonymous (irv)

Posted By: Anonymous User on 10/16/2009 12:39:13 PM

Right now, I would like some ideas on how to make the data we have be useful.

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