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The Coalition on the Academic Workforce (CAW) -- a group of higher education associations, disciplinary associations and faculty organizations -- has issued a brief entitled One Faculty Serving All Students that calls for the majority of undergraduate courses to be taught by full-time faculty.  The brief lays out four principles for the fair and equitable treatment of all college faculty:

1. All faculty members need to receive compensation and institutional support and recognition commensurate with their status as professionals.

2. All faculty members should be aware of the recommended standards and guidelines for the academic workforce issued by their professional associations and faculty organizations.

3. All faculty members should have access to key information on academic staffing in their departments and institutions and use this information to advocate for change.

4. All long-term faculty members need to be fully enfranchised to participate in the work and life of the department and institution.

“The public has a large investment in higher education and expects a solid return on that investment,” said Rosemary G. Feal, Executive Director of the Modern Language Association. “For four decades, however, institutions have increasingly shifted teaching responsibilities to an ever-larger body of dedicated but underpaid and undersupported contingent faculty members. It’s time for institutions to shift priorities by increasing the number of full-time faculty members in the academic workforce and by providing equitable pay, working conditions, and job security to both full- and part-time teachers whose work with students is at the core of the college experience.”

To download a copy of One Faculty Serving All Student, visit the CAW web site.