Andrea Calver addresses ways to bring students, staff, and contract employees together in solidarity. Building solidarity is intentional, strategic, and long-term. Adjunct and tenured faculty have similar long term goals.
The number of minorities in universities is alarmingly small; 90% of professors are white. Minority professors are often isolated and many spend their time fighting for affirmative action.
A new initiative by the University of California system uses first-generation faculty to guide first-generation students, with the goal of decreasing dropout rates. As part of our series Rethinking College, Hari Sreenivasan visits UCLA to see how the program is working.
Dr. Stephen Svenson and Dr. Alex Levant recall their experiences entering the academic workforce. Jim Gerlach describes the relationship between independent research and the nature of teaching