Significantly, while they note that faculty lists report more faculty numbers than other sources, they also find that faculty lists report fewer part-timers than do other institutional reports. There has been a great spate of recent publications, popular and scholarly on the new academic underclass. All of these groups are likely to expand in the future, though the last may eventually decline as the current restructuring of education continues. The Job Crisis in Higher Education , which focuses on the blocked mobility aspirations of this workforce, while arguing that their prospects depend on rejecting such aspirations and instead organizing as part-timers. Like a massive focus group, the list-serv is filled with dialogue among adjunct faculty activists regarding their own experience, conditions of employment, current and past efforts to organize and views on various topics.
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