![]() ![]() Academic freedom is a fundamental characteristic of higher education, necessary to preserve an in dependent forum for free inquiry and expression, and essential to the mission of higher education to serve the common good. Because faculty tenure is the only secure protection for academic freedom in teaching, research, and service, the declining percentage of tenured faculty means that academic freedom is increasingly at risk. The proportion of faculty who are appointed each year to tenure-line positions is declining at an alarming rate. Faculty members are now classified in a growing number of categories with new titles and with distinct responsibilities, rights, and privileges. 1 Since that time, faculty work has become more fragmented, unsupported, and destabilized. Ten years ago, the Association addressed the conditions and status of part-time and non-tenure-track faculty in a thoroughly documented report. ![]() You can also see just the report's recommendations. Statistical information in the report was updated in 2014. ![]() The statement that follows was prepared by a joint subcommittee of the Association’s Committee on Contingent Faculty and the Profession (formerly the Committee on Part- Time and Non- tenure- track Appointments) and Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure and adopted by the Association’s Council in November 2003. ![]()
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