Faculty (N= 156) at regional public universities (RPUs) in the United States were surveyed
for self-reports of their primary academic identity (teacher, researcher) along with alignment …

This paper argues that the challenges to professional identity implicit in contingent
employment are significantly complicated by the substance and structure of composition …

I remember reading my termination letter (Figure 1) and being overwhelmed by a sense of
urgency and desperation. Urgent because I was unemployed and needed to work and make …

Whatcom Community College (WCC) was among a handful of two-year colleges in the state
of Washington that offered a three-course composition sequence, English 100, 101, and …

Contingent faculty often have the same experience and research curiosities as their tenure-
track counterparts, but rarely have the same opportunities to continue their professional …

This study examines how 19 adjunct instructors, working at two highly diverse public
institutions of higher education, learn to teach while teaching general education courses in …

This critical action research thesis will explore the 40-year rise of adjunctification, the term
coined to describe the increased reliance on adjunct and contingent labor in institutions of …

This dissertation is a literacy-and-identity study (Moje & Luke, 2009) of four women who
have recently earned PhDs in English with doctoral training in composition, are working in …

In higher education, adjuncts are employed at higher percentages than are full-time
instructors. These teachers are vital to colleges because they form such a large contingent of …

Now that community colleges are being pressured by external forces to improve student
completion and transfer rates, it is important to determine how part-time faculty are …