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The Challenges of Minoritized Contingent Faculty in Higher Education
Edna Chun and Alvin Evans
2023
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The Challenges of Minoritized Contingent Faculty in Higher Education offers a probing and unvarnished look at the employment challenges of these faculty members in four-year institutions. With dramatic shifts in the faculty workforce and nearly three-quarters of instructional positions in United States institutions now off the tenure track, contingent faculty have become the essential, frontline workers of higher education. Remarkably little research attention has focused on the experiences of minoritized contingent faculty in this new academic underclass. Based on in-depth interviews coupled with extensive research, the book highlights the double marginalization that can occur due to secondary employment status in the academic hierarchy, and the exclusion resulting from the intersectionality of nondominant social identities including race and ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability. As the first-person narratives reveal, these faculty often struggle for acceptance, recognition, and rewards in the day-to-day academic environment, and they can face devaluation of their contributions. As a pragmatic and concrete resource, this book offers proactive workforce strategies and key structural and policy recommendations that will assist academic and administrative leaders, including presidents, provosts, department chairs, and chief diversity officers, in building more inclusive working conditions for contingent faculty.
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Keywords
- academia
- access
- adjunct
- adjunct faculty
- BIPOC faculty
- Black Indigenous people of color faculty
- college
- contingent faculty
- corporatization of higher education
- dei
- DEIA
- diversity, equity, and inclusion
- essential workers
- faculty diversity
- faculty workforce models
- higher education policy
- human resources
- Intersectionality
- Labor
- minoritized faculty
- neoliberal
- new faculty majority
- non-tenured faculty
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNM Higher education, tertiary education
- two-tiered faculty model
- university
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