Tenure Track Versus Adjunct

~ Clarissa

Somebody came to the blog with a search request of “why some people tenure track and some adjunct.”

The answer: dumb luck.

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12 thoughts on “Tenure Track Versus Adjunct”

  1. There is another possibility some places, including where I work: Continuing non-tenure track. this is abbreviated CNTT, and refers to people who are hired to teach, pretty much exclusively. They teach about twice as many hours a week as tenured or tenure track faculty do. No doubt, after seven years the AAUP will regard them as de facto tenured and treat them accordingly, but they do not have contracts that specify them as tenured. Some have only Master’s degrees, although many have Ph. D.’s. They are much better paid than adjuncts, since they are full time employees with benefits. Some have rank as high as Associate Professor. There could be some Professors among them, but I do not know of any.

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  2. For the most part it is not dumb luck. Those who secure tenure track positions are doctorates who have carefully surveyed the market and specialize in expanding and not in contracting fields. They are doctorates who have already published essays from their dissertations in well-cited journals. They are doctorates who are pleasant and agreeable, good conversationalist who do not impose a tax on their colleagues every time they join them for conversation or lunch.

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    1. Stupid bout of hysteria from the US ultra-conservatives who are dying out and know it. The article is stupid and the person who wrote it is even more stupid. What’s to debate?

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