The Commission’s Report

The Department of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education has just released its report, “A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of U. S. Higher Education.”

In addition, in my last blog I commented that AAUP is hosting “A Dialogue on Contingent Faculty” on November 17 in Washington, DC. Invited will be the higher education groups in the Washington, DC area. I have been asked to be a discussion leader at one of the tables where we will address the issue of the faculty appointments that fall outside of traditional full-time, tenured positions. At that meeting, AAUP will release a new report on the utilization of contingent faculty. This study will be an index of contingent faculty appointments, institution by institution. It will attempt to include all faculty positions, teaching and non-teaching, to give a picture of just what the full faculty cohort looks like at each institution.