The phrase "contingent faculty" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to part-time or temporary faculty members at educational institutions.
Example: "The university is increasingly relying on contingent faculty to meet its teaching needs."
Alternatives: "adjunct faculty" or "temporary faculty".
"Having so many contingent faculty diminishes the overall quality of teaching and learning," she said.
More and more, contingent faculty members are stuck as just that.
The concentration of contingent faculty "weakens the academic enterprise," the report said.
Contingent faculty members make up about 70percentt of the teachers in higher education in the United States.
In its reports, the association has said that the concentration of contingent faculty "weakens the academic enterprise".
URAP apprentices will create an annotated bibliography of news stories on contingent faculty, as well as an annotated bibliography of academic research on contingent faculty in higher education.
Dr. Ehrenberg and a colleague analyzed 15 years of national data and found that graduation rates declined when public universities hired large numbers of contingent faculty.
Like many colleges and universities, Yale relies on graduate students and other low-paid contingent faculty members, like adjunct professors, to teach much of its coursework.
"I'm not surprised that introductory classes might be better taught by contingent faculty members simply because most tenured faculty more often teach advanced courses.
While one of those units involved tenured and tenure-track professors, the rest were constituted of contingent faculty — adjuncts, lecturers and graduate assistants who teach college classes.
The group worries that the insecure relationship between contingent faculty and their schools can damage student learning, faculty governance and academic freedom.
