Based on extensive research by our colleagues from the UC Faculty Association (formerly know as CUCFA), this article notes the disparity between UC’s enrollment growth since 2011 — an increase of 28% — and its hiring of permanent, full-time faculty to teach those students, which has not kept pace with the growth. While the article primarily focuses on how and why UC is falling behind in faculty hiring, UC-AFT President Katie Rodger also brought the reporters’ attention to the plight of the contingent faculty who have been relied on to cover those gaps, whose ballooning workloads are too often left out of the discussion. The rising number of lecturers on our campuses — which according to the article have increased 45.7% over 15 years — is “indicative of the university’s decreasing investment in the classroom,” she noted, underscoring UC-AFT’s current fight for fair workloads in our new contract.
Read the full article at the Sacramento Bee or view a PDF of the article here.
