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
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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%
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85%
Question: Just facts 50 points
Administrative support staff has increased by:a. 75%b. 100%c. 150%d. 240%
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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
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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