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6 The Other Academe
Pages 45-48

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... Trying to "embrace the complexity of the academic career," and specifically of "a scientist career, a science and engineering career," required examining Ph.D.s working in these other academic realms, Valerie Martin Conley said. Edie Goldenberg called attention to the "important" distinction between the academic "haves and have-nots" -- a distinction that applies to both individuals and institutions -- between the tenure-track and tenured professors at elite, highly endowed research campuses and the educators teaching at community colleges and working in adjunct positions.
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... "We really do need to open up our…ideas about what we will accept as that academic career that we are thinking about." At institutions of every kind, from local community colleges to worldrenowned research universities, some members of the faculty work in what Robert Hauser called a "just-in-time, part-time adjunct" labor force. At City University of New York, Manfred Philipp said, "Some of [these teachers]
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... This was not an uncommon situation. For adjuncts, getting health care is a difficult sort of situation." Because of low incomes and lack of employer retirement plans, the same difficult questions raised by the "graying" of the larger population could have an even greater impact on these other academic positions.
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