It has thrown out most of what higher education does traditionally, using mostly part-time faculty.
The campus has about 11,000 students, and the union represents 250 full-time and 300 part-time faculty members.
In many public universities, part-time faculty and graduate assistants are replacing full-time faculty members in classrooms.
There were 1,250 full- and part-time faculty members when he left in 1978, compared with 240 in 1965.
My advice to him (and other part-time faculty members): create a community — rather than going it alone, organize, unionize!
There are 333 full-time and 1,733 part-time faculty members at the school, teaching more than 6,000 undergraduates and 3,330 graduate students.
With 2,700 adjuncts and 3,100 full-time faculty members, N.Y.U.'s part-time faculty is nearly as big as its full-time faculty.
As part-time faculty members (not covered by the ruling) and graduate teaching assistants unionize, the professoriate at private institutions is reassessing its situation.
"It is, instead," they write, "a direct result of institutional practices that deny part-time faculty the basic conditions under which good teaching can take place".
Eight full-time and 10 part-time teachers will be cut, out of a total of 66 full-time and 20 part-time faculty members.
The recent financial crisis has made things worse by causing older professors to delay retirement and by pressuring institutions to use more part-time faculty.
