The Challenges of Minoritized Contingent Faculty in Higher Education

Edna Chun · Alvin Evans

Nov 2023 · Purdue University Press

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The Challenges of Minoritized Contingent Faculty in Higher Education offers a probing and unvarnished look at the employment challenges of these faculty members in four-year institutions. With dramatic shifts in the faculty workforce and nearly three-quarters of instructional positions in United States institutions now off the tenure track, contingent faculty have become the essential, frontline workers of higher education. Remarkably little research attention has focused on the experiences of minoritized contingent faculty in this new academic underclass. Based on in-depth interviews coupled with extensive research, the book highlights the double marginalization that can occur due to secondary employment status in the academic hierarchy, and the exclusion resulting from the intersectionality of nondominant social identities including race and ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability. As the first-person narratives reveal, these faculty often struggle for acceptance, recognition, and rewards in the day-to-day academic environment, and they can face devaluation of their contributions. As a pragmatic and concrete resource, this book offers proactive workforce strategies and key structural and policy recommendations that will assist academic and administrative leaders, including presidents, provosts, department chairs, and chief diversity officers, in building more inclusive working conditions for contingent faculty.

The Challenges of Minoritized Contingent Faculty in Higher Education offers a probing and unvarnished look at the employment challenges of these faculty members in four-year institutions. With dramatic shifts in the faculty workforce and nearly three-quarters of instructional positions in United ...

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Edna Chun, DM, serves as chief learning officer with HigherEd Talent and teaches in the graduate Human Capital Management program in the Columbia University School of Professional Studies. She has more than two decades of strategic human resource and diversity leadership experience in public higher education. As an internationally recognized expert in leadership development, she frequently advises universities and colleges on diversity strategic planning, total rewards strategy, talent acquisition and retention, change management and organizational development, cultural competence, inclusive pedagogy, and the integration of human resources and diversity practices.

Alvin Evans serves as higher education practice leader with HigherEd Talent. With more than twenty years of executive-level experience in complex local education agencies and doctoral institutions of higher education, he works with organizations seeking to develop strategic and cutting-edge organizational capabilities. His expertise lies in core human resources administrative functions, policy development, organizational design and development, program evaluation, change management, organizational diversity, coaching and mentoring programs, and leveraging qualitative and quantitative data to enhance organizational efficiency and effectiveness. His publications focus on leadership, organizational development, and DEI.

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