Using a Legal Lens to Better Understand and Frame Issues Shaping the Employment Environment of Non-Tenure Track Faculty Members

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ID3756422
AuthorsNeal H Hutchens (University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume55
Issue11
Pages1443-1460
Publication date2011-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002764211409192
OpenAlexW2105625567
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited6

This article provides an overview and analysis of legal standards helping to shape the employment environment of non-tenure track faculty members. Familiarity with the significant differences in the types of employment arrangements for non-tenure track faculty and the resulting legal protections is of potential value to scholars seeking to better understand issues related to these faculty members. Many non-tenure track faculty members possess limited legal protections related to their employment, but a minority work under multiyear appointments with an expectation of renewal. The presence or absence of collective bargaining rights may also result in meaningful differences in the employment environment of non-tenure track faculty members. Additionally, the article examines the potential impact on non-tenure track faculty of legal uncertainty over First Amendment protection for individual academic freedom and other forms of professorial speech

Academic freedom · Business · Collective bargaining · Economics · Higher education · Labour economics · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Track (disk drive) · Value (mathematics) · Work (physics) · Academic Freedom and Politics · Engineering · Law · Legal Education and Practice Innovations · Legal Issues in Education

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