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onate about teaching and put a ton of effort and concern into their course are ntt faculty phoning it in i would say that s a bigger problem with tenured faculty at least ntt faculty know that they re being paid albeit poorly to teach whereas tenured faculty might be under the impression that teaching is not necessarily the most important part of our jobs and behave accordingly while some ntt faculty are duds let s be honest here and recognize that there may well be a higher fraction of duds among the tenure track and tenured professoriate even if you wanted to argue that the lack of a formal process results in more faculty who aren t good at teaching i don t think that s the biggest problem we have so then what s my problem with the process if it doesn t result in the hiring of bad teachers gosh it s hard to know know where to start while our institutions are exploiting ntt labor to some extent and that extent varies greatly among institutions we still are hiring for professional positions and there should be a transparent and equitable process think about all of the time and trouble that gets involved into hiring undergraduates for reu positions big applicants statements letters of reference a committee all for a position that pays a few thousand dollars over the summer and then ends the amount of money for ntt positions is not smaller and all of those concerns about equity justice and representation matter if the opportunity to become an instructor of record is one of the major stepping stones to becoming a professor and in many places it is then how come the process providing access to such an opportunity is so darn inequitable i don t know about your university but at mine there is a sizable community of ntt faculty who are very important on our campus not only do they do so much teaching they contribute in a lot of other ways even if their employment contracts do not expect such a a contribution they serve on our academic senate and help make big decisions about the institution they help run our student research conference and are advisors to student clubs and so much more not all ntt instructors have this level of engagement but it s been several times where i ve worked with someone for months only to discover that they re not tenure track and that they re doing this stuff even though they don t have to but only because they want to there are many folks who are making a career out of this role the people who evolve into this position come at it sideways usually by getting hired by a departmental chair in a slapdash manner and then they stick with it over the years i think it s a problem that we have parallel professional pathways for university faculty with one pathway getting more support scrutiny and respect it s been a while since i ve written about how tenure track faculty are essentially parasites of non tenure track faculty but that situation still is exploitative even if our universities have been working in earnest to professionalize what it means to be ntt faculty perhaps one of the reasons that faculty and other people in universities aren t investing enough into ntt faculty is that there s such little care or concern invested when we recruit people into these roles everybody deserves respect and professional support and perhaps we might begin this process as we should proceed by putting thought and concern into who gets hired i honestly don t know how to operationalize this idea of conducting a transparent and equitable process for hiring adjunct faculty and if i were in the position where i was expected to do this i would be asking with what kind of support because we only are creating the academic calendar a few months in advance of when these job opportunities arise and sometimes because funding is short we can t float sections we want to and sometimes because of demand some get added at the last minute the hr and faculty affairs offices wouldn t have the staff to handle this and are we asking people to sit on more committees what does this look like it sounds like a disaster but what we have right now is a disaster of a different kind that we ve just grown to live with i don t know what to do with it and the lack of professional support for ntt faculty is a downright epidemic and the slapdash hiring procedures is just one small consequence of a much bigger problem final note this post isn t about anything specific going on at my institution or at any other institution it was triggered by one of those emails that i got this morning but those emails are a steady trickle near as we prepare for a new semester it s not about you it s not about me except for the fact that it is about everybody and you and me are part of everybody a short note on nomenclature adjunct can mean a lot of different things what are the differences among contingent faculty adjunct faculty lecturer non tenure track instructor and other terms of art there are a lot of subtle differences and some of these differences vary depending on the institutional context for example in the california state university system all faculty who are not tenure line faculty are lecturers that s the terminology built into the collective bargaining agreement contingent simply means that you re hired at will and don t have a long term contract this gets complex because some non tenure track faculty are more contingent than others depending on policies and guidelines for employment in your university for example in the csu the cba provides for entitlement for ntt faculty who have been on the job for a little while it s not exactly tenure and not a guarantee of future work but it s makes it harder to give those teaching assignments to anybody else adjunct can be interpreted as a label that a person isn t a part of the regular faculty but they re just a temporary add on so this term when applied to folks who are a well engaged with the campus isn t quite appropriate and can be othering date 28 november 2022 author terry mcglynn recommended reads 205 standard a couple more research articles showing how teaching valuations are sexist and the interaction effect with age is quite something if you re involved in teaching evaluations in any way this is important to know about book the guidebook for the engaged university do i really want to be a professor what a frog pandemic tells us about humans it s not too late to bid on items from joan didion s estate book women in field biology continue reading this entry was tagged recommended reads date 08 november 2022 author terry mcglynn on bureaucratic obstacles to field experiences for students standard if your university is like mine then you hear a lot about everybody is working hard to make sure that students have exposure to high impact educational practices we all want to make sure that while students are in college that they have the chance to have meaningful experiences for students in a bunch of science fields it s pretty clear that one of the most transformative and impactful educational practices in our toolkit is bringing students to places in nature for genuine field experiences yes it s possible to become an ecologist or a geologist without going into the field but i think everybody who is getting professional preparation at the undergraduate level in the field sciences should have ample opportunity to go out into the field with their courses and their instructors right but it seems a lot of our universities aren t on the same page they might think it s a good idea but there are also so many bureaucratic obstacles to taking students into the field that we re doing it less than we should be i know so many people who aren t taking students on field trips simply because their institution is making it too hard to make this happen continue reading date 07 november 2022 author terry mcglynn nsf s accountability for the waterman award standard usually we talk about accountability when people are getting it wrong and perhaps on the occasional moment when someone or some organization experiences appropriate negative consequences for their own actions that s only the first step accountability includes taking the steps to right the wrong to move forward doing the right things so i d just like to take a brief moment to say thank you to the national science foundation for showing some accountability and doing the right thing good on ya nsf continue reading date 17 october 2022 author terry mcglynn i know you re busy so i ll make this quick standard this is a sign that i ve been getting it wrong when people start talking to me by saying i know you re busy but then i feel like i have already failed a little bit continue reading date 21 september 2022 author terry mcglynn recommended reads 204 standard black pwi navigating an anti black campus climate meet the professor who hiked 500 miles across the mojave desert why i shrank my lab in half continue reading this entry was tagged recommended reads date 11 september 2022 author terry mcglynn are reus always good for students enrolled in msis it s complicated standard in my department we have a complicated relationship with reu research experience for undergraduate programs we have several well funded active labs on my campus that provide quality mentored research opportunities to biology undergrads so students in our department do who want to have impactful research experience have access to them however it s still valuable for these students to go to an reu program at another university in the summer reu programs especially those in places with a bunch of phd students around may have a strong positive impact on the professional trajectory of students who are doing their undergrad at primarily undergraduate institutions even though academics are known for unnecessarily qualifying general statements with may might or possibly the may that i italicized in the previous sentence was there by design it might have a positive impact or it might actually have a negative impact it depends continue reading this entry was tagged mentoring minority serving institution r1 vs non r1 reu summer research date 07 september 2022 author terry mcglynn the great resignation in academia and the larger mental health crisis standard this is a guest post by rob clark higher rates of faculty departing from academia is a reflection of the ongoing mental health crisis the mental health crisis is not unique to higher education but instead is a systemic issue being felt across all walks of life for example dramatically increased rates of depression are attributed to the covid19 pandemic with about 1 out of 10 people reporting depression symptoms prior to 2019 and up to 1 out of 3 people in 2022 similarly symptoms of anxiety mood disorders are up to 47 in the us in the u s this problem is exacerbated by a fatigued and overwhelmed healthcare system in my own experience it has been exceptionally difficult to get timely mental healthcare it took me 16 months to get an appointment with a prescribing psychiatrist the counseling center i currently use has a waiting list of over 50 patients i currently live in a densely population area with decent healthcare system and the situation is baffling continue reading this entry was tagged alternative careers applying for jobs careers mental health date 31 august 2022 author robertclarkphd recommended reads 203 standard an article in slate about how folks in the humanities aren t doing the off campus volunteer academic service like they used to profiles of faculty who made major career pivots because of the imperative to do more about the climate crisis this really hit home for me two of their four subjects left faculty positions for other roles so this article is 50 quit lit this one is 100 quit lit i left academia to work in a pub because i m working class continue reading this entry was tagged recommended reads date 05 august 2022 author terry mcglynn who uses tenure and how do they use it standard they say that tenure is designed to protect academic freedom that is mostly true but it is also used for for other purposes by faculty and other parties let s do a rundown of how tenure gets used continue reading this entry was tagged academic freedom academic misconduct adjunct faculty careers salary sexual harassment tenure date 01 august 2022 author terry mcglynn systemic racial disparities in nsf funding standard if you re doing basic scientific research in the us here s a new must read this preprint by chen et al dropped on friday entitled decades of systemic racial disparities in funding rates at the national science foundation using over 20 years of data on funding rates they demonstrate that white pis have been getting funded at higher rates than non white pis it feels like the scope of this preprint is similar to what ginther et al documented for nih in 2011 since that time the ginther gap has been central to discussions involving disparities at nih i think the figures speak for themselves so i m going to just share some of them figure 1 shows that white folks have consistently been getting more funding across the years continue reading this entry was tagged equity funding grants nsf racism date 25 july 2022 author terry mcglynn why i don t have trouble finding peer reviewers standard i see this very often in social media and also in conversation with other academic editors it s getting harder and harder to get find people who agree to review manuscripts i have no idea whether this reflects the general experience or if it s borne out by data i of course believe the lived experience of my peers and their accounts make sense given the steady and absurd increase in publication rates with so many people working the manuscript ladder chasing prestige all compounded by the difficulties of the pandemic i imagine that some journals have tracked the invitation acceptance rate and how it s changed over time and perhaps shared this or maybe it s in the bibliometric literature though over the span of a couple minutes my searching powers came up short that said i have to admit that getting reviewers to say yes hasn t been a problem for me in the course of editorial duties even in the depths of this pandemic i usually haven t had to ask more than three to five people in order to land two reviewers each year i ve been handling dozens of manuscripts so i can t credibly pin this on the luck of the draw i don t know why i don t have much trouble finding peer reviewers it presumably is a complex function of the function of manuscripts themselves the society affiliation of the journal how and who i choose to invite the financial model of the journal maybe if people are more likely to say yes to me as a human being and who knows what else if you ask people why they say no i m sure everybody just thinks it s because they re too busy but if you ask people why they say yes then that where it might get interesting the title of this post is off because i clearly don t know...
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