The Maine Campus, January 19, 2012, Thursday

The Maine Campus

January 19, 2012, Thursday

The Maine Campus (full article)

Part-time faculty union to enter mediation with system over contract

“Tenured and tenure-track faculty are now a minority of higher-education faculty nationwide,” Ronald Ehrenberg, a professor of industrial and labor relations and economics at Cornell University, recently wrote on a forum at the Chronicle of Higher Education’s website. “Salaries for [part-time] positions are much lower than those of tenured and tenure-track faculty.”