Restrictions among non-tenure-track faculty members impair students' educational experience.
Full- and part-time teaching faculty members without tenure at US academic institutions face challenges that detract from their work and negatively affect their students, says a report released on 23 August by the New Faculty Majority Foundation in Akron, Ohio. A survey of 500 contingent faculty members found that they often don't know until days before a class begins that they are to teach it, and that most have no access to office or lab space, phones or computers. Such practices compromise students' educational experience, the report argues. Maria Maisto, executive director of the foundation, adds that uncertainty and lack of office space also hinder development of student–mentor relationships.
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Teachers lack resources. Nature 489, 167 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nj7414-167b
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