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Models of teaching Tenure LECTURER TENURE and THE SUSTAINABLE University

Models of teaching Tenure LECTURER TENURE and THE SUSTAINABLE University. Tsistrunk. Public Trust Governed by All Parties.

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Models of teaching Tenure LECTURER TENURE and THE SUSTAINABLE University

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  1. Models of teaching TenureLECTURER TENURE and THE SUSTAINABLE University Tsistrunk

  2. Public Trust Governed by All Parties • The people of California have bestowed a public trust on the members of the California State University to promote and provide a high-quality, postsecondary education for Californians • The California legislature has ordained that this responsibility be exercised through a system of shared governance, which currently includes faculty, staff, students and administrators • Faculty includes both part-time, fulltime temporary, probationary and tenured instructors • The relationship between all the parties is predicated on mutual goals (each part functions for common purpose –not completely hierarchical)

  3. Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act (HEERA) “The Legislature recognizes that joint decision-making and consultation between administration and faculty or academic employees is the long-accepted manner of governing institutions of higher learning and is essential to the performance of the educational missions of such institutions, and declares that it is the purpose of this act to both preserve and encourage that process. Nothing contained in this [law] shall be construed to restrict, limit, or prohibit the full exercise of the functions of the faculty in any shared governance mechanisms or practices, including...the Academic Senates of the California State University and Colleges, and other faculty councils, with respect to policies on academic and professional matters affecting the California State University and Colleges.... The principle of peer review of appointment, promotion, retention, and tenure for academic employees shall be preserved.” [Section 3561(b)]

  4. Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act (HEERA) • PURPOSE: “...to provide the means by which relations between each higher education employer and its employees may assure that the responsibilities and authorities granted to the separate institutions under the Constitution and by statute are carried out in an atmosphere which permits the fullest participation by employees in the determination of conditions of employment which affect them.” [Section 3560(e)]

  5. AAUP/other • Most of the faculty should be protected by tenure_______________ • Tenure serves to preserve knowledge (University Level Education) • Promote creativity and work satisfaction • Can Promote University Strategic Hiring/Diversity

  6. Temporary is the Majority • Nationally in 2009, 75% of US faculty appointments were off tenure track, and 60% part-time • In 2016, over 50% up to 60% of faculty of the C.S.U. are Temporary Employees

  7. AAUP: TENURE ADVANTAGES • Professionalism (financial support, learning contact, time, planning , curriculum input) • Integrity of Academic Profession (collegial support, interaction with whole profession • Equity among colleagues, teacher-scholar • Ability to carry out shared governance • Academic Freedom • Faculty ability to serve the common good and wider community

  8. AAUp/ academic freedom • Faculty participation in governance is closely linked to academic freedom • Maintaining academic freedom requires faculty participation in governance • Faculty participation in governance is protected by academic freedom: intramural speech • The best protection of academic freedom, and thus of governance, is tenure

  9. AAUP/recommendations • Eligibility for voting and holding office in institutional governance bodies should be the same for all faculty, regardless of full- or part-time status. • All members of the faculty, assuming that they meet any time-in-service requirements, should be eligible to vote in all elections for institutional governance bodies on the basis of one person, one vote.

  10. Lecturers “Just Teach” is Simplistic • Currency in the field necessary aspect of instruction • University Community interaction • Courses fit in curriculum that is socially and professionally determined • Assessment , reporting , evaluation, etc. Instruction evaluated beyond SET’s • Peer Participation

  11. Shared governance • Decisions are made about instruction throughout the governance structure (Departments, Colleges, University) • Ability to Critique and Improve Institutions • The instructors who do the work must be consulted and remunerated for their expertise

  12. AAUP Recommendations • Faculty holding contingent appointments should be compensated in a way that takes into consideration the full range of their appointment responsibilities, which should include service. • Long term contingent faculty should be converted to tenure track

  13. Advantages to changing long term Lecturers into tenure track • Cheaper • Proven Experience • Accommodate Department/University Mission • Time and Expense to Return to Past Levels • OTHER?

  14. AAUP RECOMMENDATIONS • ALTERNATIVE MODELS OF TENURE SHOULD BE TRIED

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