The entrenchment of part-time academic positions reflects a more general trend in industrial
societies where part-time workers have become the fastest growing segment of the labour …

More than one-third of all Canadian faculty are part-timers who contribute significantly to
academic work while consuming only marginally universities' economic resources. Mythical …

This paper, one in a series about the priorities of the professoriate, traces the rise in the use
of part-time faculty and asks whether academic employment has become a dual labor …

This paper examines the role of part-time college faculty in higher education, the job market
for prospective faculty, the role of unions in organizing part-time faculty, and possible …

Much has been written about the coming decline in the demand for faculty in academe. In
some fields, such as history, linguistics, and the foreign languages, evidence reveals that the …

Over the past two decades, increasing government cuts have forced universities to become
dependent on full-and part-time contract faculty. This fixed dependence has reinforced the …

The financial crisis in the Canadian higher education system has led to marked growth in the
use of part-time faculty, whose interests and powers are strongly differentiated from those of …

There are numerous reasons given about why the use of part-time faculty presents a
problem in the academic world. When these are arranged in rough categories most of the …

In this study, we examine institutional predictors of part-time faculty employment in the
higher education sector in the United States. We draw upon institutional and individual-level …

Because of community colleges' diverse motivations for hiring part-time faculty, the multiple
and at times conflicting missions of various two-year institutions, and the heterogeneity of …