It’s bad enough that
the California State University is using more part-time
than full-time professors.
Dig a little deeper
and you’ll find that CSU has been choosing, decade after decade, to follow a
corporate model that builds its part-time workforce at the expense of
recruiting and retaining permanent faculty. That model is bad for the
employees, but it also has serious implications for the 447,000 students who
rely on CSU for quality public higher education.
That hiring pattern is
a long-term policy that the CSU has been advancing regardless of the state of
the economy. Moreover, in recent years despite greater investment in the CSU at
the state level (though not as much as the system needs), these hiring
practices have continued.
