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91_SR0147
LRB9106922NTsb
1 SENATE RESOLUTION
2 WHEREAS, Part-time and nontenure-track instructors have
3 increased into a source of inexpensive labor in higher
4 education; and
5 WHEREAS, A quality college or university must have a
6 corps of full-time, permanent, tenured faculty coordinating
7 the academic curriculum and teaching most of it; and
8 WHEREAS, Illinois public colleges and universities are
9 resorting to replacing tenured and tenure-track faculty
10 positions with increasing numbers of nontenure-track and
11 part-time teaching positions; and
12 WHEREAS, Courses should be taught only by highly
13 qualified people, whether full-time or part-time, tenured or
14 nontenured, who are paid a professional salary and included
15 in academic processes; and
16 WHEREAS, National studies have shown that the majority of
17 part-time faculty members teach under emphatically
18 substandard conditions; and
19 WHEREAS, Part-time and nontenure track positions are
20 disproportionately occupied by women; and
21 WHEREAS, National professional organizations representing
22 university and community college faculty, administrators, and
23 trustees have agreed that fair compensation for part-time and
24 nontenure-track faculty should be based on commensurate
25 qualifications with tenure-track faculty, with a goal of pro
26 rata rather than per course hour rates; therefore, be it
27 RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIRST GENERAL
28 ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we urge the Board of
29 Higher Education to review the growing dependence on
30 part-time and nontenure-track faculty in Illinois colleges
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1 and universities; and be it further
2 RESOLVED, That each public university and community
3 college governing board in the State provide a detailed
4 report, with rationale, to the Board of Higher Education by
5 November 15, 1999 regarding use and compensation of part-time
6 and nontenure-track faculty, with the Board of Higher
7 Education compiling the reports and providing them to the
8 General Assembly by December 15, 1999; and be it further
9 RESOLVED, That the Board of Higher Education, in
10 consultation with institutions and faculty organizations,
11 consider policies designed to discourage overreliance on
12 part-time and nontenure-track faculty for undergraduate
13 instruction while protecting those instructors performing
14 effectively in such positions; and be it further
15 RESOLVED, That the Board of Higher Education make
16 recommendations to the General Assembly concerning the
17 establishment of minimum salary and fringe benefits
18 provisions indexed to tenure-track faculty compensation for
19 part-time and nontenure-track faculty to ensure fair
20 employment and consistent emphasis on quality instruction at
21 all levels, from lower division through graduate instruction;
22 and be it further
23 RESOLVED, That a copy of this resolution be delivered to
24 the Board of Higher Education for reproduction and
25 distribution to the governing boards of each of the public
26 universities and public community college districts of this
27 State.