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The remarkable growth in the use of contingent faculty appointments over the last decade has caused a crisis in academe. Contingent faculty are exploited, often receiving inadequate compensation and professional support. At the same time, academic freedom is undermined as the faculty becomes increasingly vulnerable and unstable.
The AAUP has a special fund dedicated to supporting work on issues relating to contingent faculty appointments through research, publication, leadership development, and other assistance to faculty when need arises. Expenditures may be made from the fund for:
- Financial assistance to faculty at an institution where a significant threat to contingent faculty arises.
- Fellowships to individual faculty members who are involved in contingent faculty issues that implicate AAUP policy.
- Support of research projects relating to contingent faculty, and publication of their results.
- Assistance for contingent faculty activists to attend training programs or conferences on issues relating to contingent
appointments.
- Support of efforts to increase public understanding of contingent faculty appointments.
The fund was established by the Association’s governing Council in response to an announcement by Benjamin Johnson, Patrick Kavanagh, and Kevin Mattson that they would donate all royalties from their book Steal This University: The Rise of the Corporate University and the Academic Labor Movement to the AAUP for work on contingent faculty.
In order to expand the Contingent Faculty Fund into a truly significant source of funding to help in the battle for full professional status and academic freedom protections for contingent faculty members, contributions to the Contingent Faculty Fund are needed. Contributions may be mailed to: Contingent Faculty Fund, AAUP, 1133 Nineteenth St., NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20036.
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