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• Title:The invisible professor : the precarious lives of the new faculty majority / edited by Natalie M. Dorfeld.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Dorfeld, Natalie M., 1976- editor.
  
• Published/Created:Fort Collins, Colorado : The WAC Clearinghouse ; Denver, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2022]
  

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  • Location:EDUCATION LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: LB2331.7 .I58 2022
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Universities and colleges--Faculty--Attitudes.
  College teachers--Vocational guidance.
  College teachers, Part-time--Social conditions.
  College teachers--Tenure.
  Education, Higher--Aims and objectives.
  
• Description:xi, 228 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  
• Series:Practices & possibilities.
  
• Summary:"This edited collection offers narratives by writing instructors who are serving or have worked in contingent positions. Intended for anyone considering a career in the humanities, The Invisible Professor seeks to reach individuals in three phases of their careers: those thinking of entering the profession, those knee-deep in it and looking for ways to improve conditions, and those who have vacated academic positions for more humane alternative tracks"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:9781646423804 paperback
  1646423801 paperback
  9781642151589 electronic book
  9781642151596 electronic book
  
• Contents:Introduction: Hello, my name is Natalie, and I am a hypocrite / Natalie M. Dorfeld
  Part I: The struggle is real / academia's current landscape
  The shadow of the adjunct / Michael Dubson
  From tenure track to unemployment in six months / Jeff Dories
  Becoming lystrosaurus: Toxic environments, mass extinctions, and other cautionary tales for academics / Dustin Michael
  Adjunctivitis: The plague of academia / Marjorie Stewart
  Closing of my college department and swingline factory / Constance H. Gemson
  Part II: The debilitating effects of disposability
  A dark night and a brighter day for adjuncts / Maria Shine Stewart
  Statuses: How adjunct exploitation isolates and divides college faculty / Christian L. Pyle
  Between a rock and a hard place on a deserted island: Negotiated mental health on college campuses through the lens of a rebellious adjunct professor / Belle H. Foster
  Unheard voices and unseen faces: The experience of adjuncts / Nooshan Ashtari and Pamela Minet-Lucid / Ignorance is bliss / Ann Wiley
  Part III: Knee-deep in the trenches/What now?
  This is what solidarity looks like: A model of thick solidarity at the university of Illinois / Andrew Bowman, A. Kay Emmert, Shawn Gilmore, and Bruce Kovanen
  Where to start? An overview of the (ab)use of contingent/NTT laborers and a call for radical transparency to assist the new faculty majority / Katie Rieger and Sarah Lonelodge
  "Ten...Toil where one reposes": Stories of an adjunct faculty organizer / Anne Balay
  Alternative to nothing: rejecting "Alt-Ac" success stories and acknowledging failure / Daniel S. Brown
  Reconsidering the status of contingency: Are these really the trenches? / Jennifer K. Johnson and Nicole Warwick
  From being one to hiring one: both sides of the adjunct phenomenon in higher education / Kimberley M. Miller and Joanna Whetstone
  Adjuncting without anguish: A 21st century roadmap to success for contingent faculty / Devan Bissonette
  Part IV: Bye, Felicia
  Breaking up with higher ed / Lee Kottner
  Where the pipeline ends: teaching high school equivalency in a medium-security prison / Andrea Verschaeve and Jason Porath
  Contracting and consulting: Crafting a career / Ian S. Ray and Brandi Wren
  After adjuncting: questioning academia's "Big Club" / Steven Yates
  We are the university / Debra Leigh Scott
  Escape this neoliberal shit show now / BC Dickenson
  Labor-informed graduate education / Amy Lynch-Biniek.