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UCLA is increasingly relying on nontenured academic faculty as opposed to tenured faculty. While budget problems play a role in this, they don’t completely explain the phenomenon. (Daily Bruin file photo)

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Austin Pink: Reliance on nontenured faculty harms teaching environment, education quality

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For 14 Nobel laureates, three Pulitzer Prize winners and a Fields Medalist, UCLA is home. For 2,000 nontenured faculty, however, it’s merely temporary housing. The number of nontenure academic faculty at UCLA, including adjunct faculty, lecturers, clinical professors and in-residence faculty, has increased by 46 percent since 2009, according to UCLA Academic Planning and Budget.

https://dailybruin.com/2018/04/01/austin-pink-reliance-on-nontenured-faculty-harms-teaching-environment-education-quality/

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Austin Pink: Reliance on nontenured faculty harms teaching environment, education quality

By Austin Pink

April 1, 2018 9:49 p.m.