USE OF PART-TIME OR 'ADJUNCT' FACULTY

WHEREAS, recent studies suggest that the use of part-time, non-tenure track and/or hourly paid or "adjunct" faculty is rapidly increasing; and

WHEREAS, such faculty are all too often paid at rates ranging down to one-third or less of established salary scales, are not provided with any benefits, and are not accorded the protections of seniority, due process, or peer review; and

WHEREAS, the exploitative use of such faculty both abuses such professionals and undermines the con­tracts, salaries, and professional standards of full-time faculty:

RESOLVED, that the American Federation of Teachers shall establish a Task Force on Part-Time College and University Faculty whose responsibility it shall be to develop and present to the Executive Council a plan for eliminating abuses of part-time non-tenure track and/or hourly paid or adjunct faculty and for the more rapid organization of part-time non-tenure track and/or hourly paid or adjunct college and university faculty; and

RESOLVED, that this Task Force will contain, within its membership, a representative number of such part-time non-tenure track and/or hourly paid or adjunct faculty.