tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4910636570401233731.post5564483300925848523..comments2023-06-01T03:45:29.706-04:00Comments on ChanceryHillBooks: How I was Subordinated: Let me Count the WaysTomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11838296548128807890noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4910636570401233731.post-79609440228227263222015-07-04T23:23:28.628-04:002015-07-04T23:23:28.628-04:00My sense is that, at many universities, tenure tra...My sense is that, at many universities, tenure track faculty are perceived as having careers that deserve or need to be nurtured; teaching faculty, by contrast, are not perceived as deserving of the same career support. And you're entirely right, that that runs against the mythology that suggests that teaching positions are a stepping stone to tenure-track positions. Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11838296548128807890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4910636570401233731.post-64816036076596033832015-07-04T19:41:31.423-04:002015-07-04T19:41:31.423-04:00This pretty exactly mirrors my own experience in a...This pretty exactly mirrors my own experience in an even more privileged (multi-year renewable) contingent position. We've even got the possibility for promotion (I'm an untenured associate professor, eligible in a few years to apply for full), but, for all the reasons listed above, it's not a real career track, because there's no real opportunity to make use of, and pass on, one's experience. And, of course, there are the salary disparities (ours are similar; after 15 years, I'm still not making as much as an entry-level tenure-track assistant professor), which make it even harder to make progress on research/writing, since I need to teach during the summer. <br /><br />As far as I'm concerned, the strangest contradiction/catch-22 remains the fact that tenure-track faculty, who have a chance at greater job security, are actually expected, and paid, to spend time on activities (research and writing) that accrue academic capital beyond the institution, while contingent faculty, who need to be prepared to find another job, are paid only for activities that benefit the institution directly, and not for those that are most valued on the employment market. There's something wrong with this picture. . . .Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.com