Writing Center Journal
Abstract
In his book A Working Model for Contingent Faculty, Robert Samuels presents multiple ideas for helping contingent faculty organize to gain equity on campus: in their careers, working conditions, and pay. Samuels critiques current prominent, negative discourse on contingent faculty, offering instead ways to emphasize contingent faculty’s diverse and positive experiences and opportunities. I offer additional insights spurred from Samuels’s ideas, including connecting with student government and finding ways to make writing center work and research more public and apparent to institutional stakeholders (e.g., students, faculty, donors, administrators, boards/trustees).
Recommended Citation
Werner, Courtney L.
(2024)
"Review: A Working Model for Contingent Faculty,"
Writing Center Journal: Vol. 42
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Iss.
3,
Article 9.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7771/2832-9414.2070
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