Shift away from the track is damaging, claims report.
US universities should restore faculty positions to the tenure track and hire fewer adjuncts, says the American Association of University Professors in Washington DC. In its 6 September report 'Tenure and Teaching-Intensive Appointments', the association asserts that contingent faculty members and students all suffer because of the shift to non-tenure-track positions. Marc Bousquet, the report committee's co-chair, says that non-tenured research-faculty members have limited academic freedom, work under the direction of another faculty member and, as a result, lose independence and can be pressured to accept another investigator's conclusions. As of 2007, some 70% of US faculty members were non-tenured, says the report.
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Return to tenure urged. Nature 467, 359 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nj7313-359d
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nj7313-359d