VelazquezThe Politics of Contingent Academic Labor

Avi & Cristina

Faculty as

Wage Labor

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Many adjuncts are eligible for

what government program?

Question: Adjuncts 20 points

FOODSTAMPS

Answer: Adjuncts 20 points

Question: Adjuncts 30 points

What percentage of Non-tenure track positions account for faculty appointments at a university?A. 39% B. 45% C. 60% D. 68%

Answer: Adjuncts 30 points

68%

Question: Adjuncts 40 points

What is the average wage per class paid?

Answer: Adjuncts 40 points

$900/course

Question: Adjuncts 50 points

In the 1970s, adjuncts comprised 20 percent of college faculty nationally, a percentage that has now climbed to well over _________%?

Answer: Adjuncts 50 points

50%

Question: Universities 20 points

What are three synonyms for “university”?

Answer: Universities 20 points

College, academy, school, institute, alma mater, graduate school, polytechnic

Question: Universities 30 points

For the 2011–12 academic year, annual current dollar prices for undergraduate tuition, room, and board were estimated to be ________ at public institutions and _______ at private nonprofit institutions.

a. $14,300 & $37,800b. $15,399 & $40,100c. $16,400 & $41,250d. $18,599 & $42,564

Answer: Universities 30 points

$14,300 & $37,800

http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=76

According to the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the average net price of a doctorate degree at a public school in the 2007-2008 school year reached ______________each year. Private school tuition during the same year rose to $35,800 annually. A typical doctoral program takes five full-time years to complete, bringing the total cost to roughly $116,000-$181,500, depending on whether attendance is at a public or private school (nces.ed.gov).

Question: Universities 40 points

a. 20,200b. 22,000c. 23, 200d. 32,000

Answer: Universities 40 points

$23,200/year

Question: Universities 50 points

What is the oldest college in the United States?

Answer: Universities 50 points

Harvard

http://facts.randomhistory.com/facts-about-us-colleges.html

Question: Faculty as Wage Labor 20 points

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the federal law setting minimum wage, overtime, and timely pay standards for both hourly and salaried workers, currently does not cover______? (who?)

Answer: Faculty as Wage Labor 20 points

Contingent faculty

Question: Faculty as Wage Labor 30 points

Although by definition an adjunct is “part-time” 40 percent say they work more than ________ hours a week for their university employer(s).

Answer: Faculty as Wage Labor 30 points

40

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What % of contingent faculty were asked or expected to perform work that they were not paid for by their academic employers?

35%, 45%, 56%, 73%

Answer: Faculty as Wage Labor 40 points

73 percent of survey

respondents stated “yes” or

“maybe.”

Question: Faculty as Wage Labor 50 points

40 percent say they work more than 40 hours a week for their university employer(s). Although by definition an adjunct is “______________”

Answer: Faculty as Wage Labor 50 points

Part-Time

Question: Tenure 20 points

True or false. tenured faculty can’t get fired?

Answer: Tenure 20 points

False.Tenure is simply a right to due process; it means that a college or university cannot fire a tenured professor without presenting evidence that the professor is incompetent or behaves unprofessionally

http://www.nea.org/home/33067.htm

Question: Tenure 30 points

True or False.

When a tenured professor retires a new tenured position opens in it’s place

Answer: Tenure 30 points

False

too often the new position is not put on the tenure trackhttp://www.nea.org/home/33067.htm

Question: Tenure 40 points

How are non-tenured faculty in California dealing with this issue today?

Answer: Tenure 40 points

Plan Walkouts

http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2015-02-25/education/ca-college-adjunct-professors-plan-walkout-today/a44766-1

Question: Tenure 50 points

What has been the big catalyst for the recent focus on unfair working conditions for these highly qualified educators?

Answer: Tenure 50 points

unionization 

http://www.psmag.com/business-economics/are-adjunct-professors-the-new-fast-food-workers

Question: Just facts 20 points

Are there any unions in the state of California for non-tenured faculty?

Answer: Just facts 20

Yes

Examples: St. Mary’s College, Dominican University, Mills College, San Francisco Art Institute, and the California College of the Arts. In the Los Angeles region, Whittier College, Laguna College of Art + Design, and Otis College of Art and Designhttp://www.psmag.com/business-economics/are-adjunct-professors-the-new-fast-food-workers

Question: Just facts 30 points

True or false.

The raise in enrollment means a raise in faculty?

Answer: Just facts 30

False

Question: Just facts 40 points

University administrator employment has increased:a. 10%b. 35%c. 50%d. 85%

Answer: Just facts 40

85%

Question: Just facts 50 points

Administrative support staff has increased by:a. 75%b. 100%c. 150%d. 240%

Answer: Just facts 50

240%

Question: More facts 20 points

What former CSU Chancellor wanted to eliminate tenure altogether?

Answer: More facts 20 points

Charles Reed

Question: More facts 30 points

Cal State adjunct faculty are represented by California Faculty Association (another SEIU local), which represents more than:a. 10,000 employees

b. 23,000 employees

c. No one

Answer: More facts 30 points

23,000 employees

Question: More facts 40 points

What is one reason tenure is important?

Answer: More facts 40 points

Academic Freedom

Question: More facts 50 points

True or false.

“Fifty percent of the faculty in our country make what somebody at McDonald’s makes”? 

Answer: More facts 50 points

True

According to Adrianna Kezar, a professor at the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education and co-director of the Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success