Article on the Role of Contingent Faculty Members in Governance

The 2013 MLA convention’s Presidential Forum, which addressed the working conditions of non-tenure-track faculty members in higher education, was featured in a recent Chronicle of Higher Education article (log-in required) about the issue. Examining a recent vote by faculty members of New York University’s College of Arts and Sciences, the piece considers the role of non-tenure-track faculty members in university governance and how that affects their working conditions.