LINGUIST List 21.3958 Thu Oct 07 2010 FYI: Coalition for the Academic Workforce Survey Editor for this issue: Brent Miller <brentlinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.    David Robinson, Coalition for the Academic Workforce Survey Message 1: Coalition for the Academic Workforce Survey Date: 07-Oct-2010 From: David Robinson <drobinsonlsadc.org> Subject: Coalition for the Academic Workforce Survey E-mail this message to a friend The Coalition for the Academic Workforce is conducting a survey of Contingent Faculty Members, Instructors, and Researchers. The survey is available for completion through November 30th at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VNNNRVS. The Coalition on the Academic Workforce (CAW) invites all members of the contingent academic workforce in U.S. colleges and universities to participate in this survey. The survey inquires about course assignments, salaries, benefits, and general working conditions as members of the contingent academic workforce experience them at the institutional level. We invite participation from all instructional and research staff members employed off the tenure track, including faculty members employed either full- or part-time, graduate students remunerated as teaching assistants or employed in other roles, and researchers and post-doctoral fellows. You will follow a different branch of the questionnaire depending on your circumstance. For example, if you are employed part-time at one or more institutions in fall 2010, you will have an opportunity to complete a separate screen for each course you are teaching at each institution where you are employed. If you hold a full-time non-tenure-track position at a single institution, you will have an opportunity to complete a (different) form with the number and types of courses you are teaching, the terms of your contract, and the compensation and benefits you are receiving. The goal is to develop institution- and discipline-specific information as the basis for a more textured, differentiated, and realistic picture of contingent faculty members’ working lives and working conditions. Please note that any personal information about individuals collected through the survey is and will remain confidential. Organized in 1997, CAW is a group of 21 higher education associations, disciplinary associations, and faculty organizations committed to addressing issues associated with deteriorating faculty working conditions and their effect on college and university students in the United States. For more information about CAW, please visit http://www.academicworkforce.org. Linguistic Field(s): Not Applicable Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 07-Oct-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.