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Volume 37 | Number 3
 
Temple University
ISSUE TOPIC:
The Highways and Byways of Faculty Work

This issue's authors explore the structural and cultural issues confronting women in contingent faculty positions and offer a new map for professional equity. READ MORE


FEATURES:

  • Ashley Finley explores how gender converges with a range of factors, such as discipline and institutional type, to locate women disproportionately in contingent faculty positions.

  • Based on their interviews with non-tenure-track faculty, researchers at the University of Michigan suggest steps to improve faculty satisfaction.

FROM WHERE I SIT:

  • Noreen O'Connor envisions a new parent track in academia that would allow PhD candidates and faculty to achieve balance without stepping off the tenure track.

  • Judith Gappa and Andrea Trice outline guidelines for creating faculty workplaces that are more inclusive of women and men across faculty ranks.
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:
The Director's Outlook by Caryn McTighe Musil calls the academy to view the contingent professoriate through a gendered lens and recognize its untapped value.
Judith White interrogates the rhetoric of choice as a barrier to women's leadership.
Abbey Swan charts the advancements and setbacks to women's education in Central Asian states.
For Your Bookshelf features six new books including Most College Students are Women: Implications for Teaching, Learning, and Policy and The Gender Gap in College: Maximizing the Developmental Potential of Women and Men

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