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Education
5:12 pm
Fri December 7, 2012

University of Michigan lecturers rally for equal pay

Credit Chris Zollars
LEO Demonstration in Ann Arbor

The University of Michigan’s got about 15 hundred unhappy lecturers to deal with.

Non-tenured faculty from the University of Michigan's three campuses want a bump in pay, to put them on par with their tenured colleagues.

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Education
11:20 am
Wed July 13, 2011

Growing concerns with increasing lecturers and decreasing tenured and tenure track faculty

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Lorien Foote, associate professor of history at UCA

The University of Michigan-Flint is one of many American campuses that has hired more lecturers than tenure track faculty in the past few years. According to AAUP research, nationally the number of non-tenure track faculty increased by more than 200 percent on college campuses while tenured faculty increased 30 percent and tenure track faculty increased 7 percent.

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