to Bring in High-Tech Workers,”
WSJ
, January 8, 1998, 1.
42. Even
BusinessWeek
found serious fault with this position. See “Is There a Technie Shortage?,”
BusinessWeek
, June 29, 1998.
43. Testimony before the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, “Employment-Based Immigration Consultation,” Washington, D.C., February 23, 1995, pp. 11–20; also January 18, 1995, p. 57 (for Motorola), and p. 66 (for 3M).
44. These corporate quotes come from Charles Keely, “Globalization and Human Resource Management: Nonimmigrant Visa Strategies and Behavior of U.S. Firms,” 53. This report, heavily biased in favor of globalized firms, quotes abundantly from the firms themselves; it makes clear that they want, above all, “labor flexibility,” which foreigners (not Americans) give them. “The problem would seem to be [for Americans] willingness to relocate and perhaps move into a new work environment.” Keely is professor of international migration at Georgetown University.
45. See Keely, “Globalization and Human Resource Management,” which speaks for seven major global firms but also pretends to represent the views of the majority of such firms. Among Keely’s other listed companies are Deloitte and Touche, Ford, Procter and Gamble, and Eastman Chemical. All quotes in this discussion, once again, come from this seventy-five-page report.
46.
Ibid.
, p. 63.
47. The report of the House Committee on the Judiciary, “Workforce Improvement and Protection Act of 1998,” pp. 10–11, 17–22. See also
Chronicle of Higher Education
, August 7, 1998, May 29, 1998, A33; “High-Tech Companies to Ask Congress for Easier Immigration for Workers,”
WSJ
, February 24, 1998, A2; and
NYT
, October 16, 1998, p. A25.
48. Richard Chait, “Thawing the Cold War over Tenure,”
Adjunct Advocate
, January–February 1998, 18; and Anne Matthews,
Bright College Years: Inside the Campus Today
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997), pp 177–91.
49. Some analysts put the figure even higher, at more than 50 percent (a figure that includes part-timers, temporary full-timers, and teaching and research assistants). If one included graduate assistants, the figure was possibly this high (phone interview with Ernest Benjamin, director of research, American Association of University Professors, July 21, 1998). See “For Some Adjunct Faculty Members, the Tenure Track Holds Little Appeal,”
Chronicle of Higher Education
, July 24, 1998, A9; “Contracts Replace the Tenure Track for a Growing Number of Professors,”
Chronicle of Higher Education
, June 12, 1998, A12; “Professors Are Working Part Time, and More Teach at 2-Year Colleges,”
Chronicle of Higher Education
, March 13, 1998, A14. See also, for changes over time, Tony Horowitz, “Young Professors Find Life in Academia Isn’t What It Used to Be,”
WSJ
, February 15, 1994, 1; Seth Adams, “Part-Time College Teaching Rises,”
NYT
, January 1, 1995, A17; Philip Altbach, “The Pros and Cons of Hiring ‘Taxi-cab’ Professors,”
Chronicle of Higher Education
, January 6, 1995, B3; and Mary Elizabeth Perry, “The Invisible Majority: Myths, Realities, and a Call to Action,”
Perspectives
(American Historical Association newsletter), May–June 1995, 33:5, 9–11; and P. D. Lesko, interview with Kali Tal,
Adjunct Advocate
(Nov./Dec. 1997), 17. On wage disparities, see P. D. Lesko, “What Scholarly Associations Should Do to Stop the Exploitation of Adjuncts,”
Chronicle of Higher Education
, December 15, 1995, B3.
50. On the number of post-docs, see
Chronicle of Higher Education
, August 7, 1998, A60, and David North,
Soothing the Establishment
(New York: University Press of America, 1995), p. 98.
51. On community colleges, see Patricia M. Callan, “America’s Public Community Colleges,”
Daedalus
(Fall 1997) 126:4, 98.
52. Quoted in Judith Gappa and David W. Leslie,
The Invisible Faculty: Improving the Status of Part-timers in Higher Education
(San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
WSJ
, January 8, 1998, 1.
42. Even
BusinessWeek
found serious fault with this position. See “Is There a Technie Shortage?,”
BusinessWeek
, June 29, 1998.
43. Testimony before the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, “Employment-Based Immigration Consultation,” Washington, D.C., February 23, 1995, pp. 11–20; also January 18, 1995, p. 57 (for Motorola), and p. 66 (for 3M).
44. These corporate quotes come from Charles Keely, “Globalization and Human Resource Management: Nonimmigrant Visa Strategies and Behavior of U.S. Firms,” 53. This report, heavily biased in favor of globalized firms, quotes abundantly from the firms themselves; it makes clear that they want, above all, “labor flexibility,” which foreigners (not Americans) give them. “The problem would seem to be [for Americans] willingness to relocate and perhaps move into a new work environment.” Keely is professor of international migration at Georgetown University.
45. See Keely, “Globalization and Human Resource Management,” which speaks for seven major global firms but also pretends to represent the views of the majority of such firms. Among Keely’s other listed companies are Deloitte and Touche, Ford, Procter and Gamble, and Eastman Chemical. All quotes in this discussion, once again, come from this seventy-five-page report.
46.
Ibid.
, p. 63.
47. The report of the House Committee on the Judiciary, “Workforce Improvement and Protection Act of 1998,” pp. 10–11, 17–22. See also
Chronicle of Higher Education
, August 7, 1998, May 29, 1998, A33; “High-Tech Companies to Ask Congress for Easier Immigration for Workers,”
WSJ
, February 24, 1998, A2; and
NYT
, October 16, 1998, p. A25.
48. Richard Chait, “Thawing the Cold War over Tenure,”
Adjunct Advocate
, January–February 1998, 18; and Anne Matthews,
Bright College Years: Inside the Campus Today
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997), pp 177–91.
49. Some analysts put the figure even higher, at more than 50 percent (a figure that includes part-timers, temporary full-timers, and teaching and research assistants). If one included graduate assistants, the figure was possibly this high (phone interview with Ernest Benjamin, director of research, American Association of University Professors, July 21, 1998). See “For Some Adjunct Faculty Members, the Tenure Track Holds Little Appeal,”
Chronicle of Higher Education
, July 24, 1998, A9; “Contracts Replace the Tenure Track for a Growing Number of Professors,”
Chronicle of Higher Education
, June 12, 1998, A12; “Professors Are Working Part Time, and More Teach at 2-Year Colleges,”
Chronicle of Higher Education
, March 13, 1998, A14. See also, for changes over time, Tony Horowitz, “Young Professors Find Life in Academia Isn’t What It Used to Be,”
WSJ
, February 15, 1994, 1; Seth Adams, “Part-Time College Teaching Rises,”
NYT
, January 1, 1995, A17; Philip Altbach, “The Pros and Cons of Hiring ‘Taxi-cab’ Professors,”
Chronicle of Higher Education
, January 6, 1995, B3; and Mary Elizabeth Perry, “The Invisible Majority: Myths, Realities, and a Call to Action,”
Perspectives
(American Historical Association newsletter), May–June 1995, 33:5, 9–11; and P. D. Lesko, interview with Kali Tal,
Adjunct Advocate
(Nov./Dec. 1997), 17. On wage disparities, see P. D. Lesko, “What Scholarly Associations Should Do to Stop the Exploitation of Adjuncts,”
Chronicle of Higher Education
, December 15, 1995, B3.
50. On the number of post-docs, see
Chronicle of Higher Education
, August 7, 1998, A60, and David North,
Soothing the Establishment
(New York: University Press of America, 1995), p. 98.
51. On community colleges, see Patricia M. Callan, “America’s Public Community Colleges,”
Daedalus
(Fall 1997) 126:4, 98.
52. Quoted in Judith Gappa and David W. Leslie,
The Invisible Faculty: Improving the Status of Part-timers in Higher Education
(San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
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