The American Federation of Teachers' Faculty and College Excellence campaign's blog (link below), provides an ongoing discussion of issues relating to contingents and, in its new "Reversing the Course" document, recent (Fall 2008) information drawn from U.S. Department of Education compilations of data nationwide. As with A.A.U.P. documents, you might draw from these to underscore the situation of adjuncts locally.
http://www.aftface.org/
...confronting precarity in all its social, labor and economic manifestations
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Sunday, February 1, 2009
Resources: AAUP info on adjuncts
The American of Association of University Professors has been studying the use of contingent (i.e. non-tenurable, both full- and part-time) faculty since 1980, when it traced to financial crises of the early 1970's what's now the established practice of hiring such faculty to cover courses without commitment to them. The link below leads to many more recent documents -- compilations of nationwide information and policy statements -- from which you might draw to support your local case:
http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/issues/contingent/resources.htm
http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/issues/contingent/resources.htm
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