ABSTRACT This study takes college teaching/educational quality seriously by taking teachers’ working conditions seriously. Data consist of contractual provisions about adjunct faculty members’ access to instructional resources and professional development in 254 collective bargaining agreements. The research analyzes the negotiated balance in quality-related working conditions between professional rights and managerial discretion, stratified access to those working conditions in the collectively negotiated jurisdiction between part- and full-time faculty, as well as explicit references to educational quality and/or public benefits/beneficiaries. The findings indicate gains in adjunct faculty rights/voice, some parity with full-time faculty in quality-related working conditions, and some explicit references to quality/public benefits. But they also speak to considerable managerial discretion in not providing those conditions, and adjunct faculty’s lesser access to them. The research builds on and extends literature on academic employees’ working conditions, finding value in a labor-based conception of basic, quality-related working conditions, and in conceptualizing professorial stratification as fluid, contingent, and shaped by collectively negotiated jurisdiction. It also points to the feasibility of enhancing adjunct faculty working conditions by linking them to higher education attending more to educational quality and public purpose in better serving students and society.

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认真对待高校教师工作条件：兼任教师与谈劳动为本的质量观

摘要 本研究重视大学教学/教育质量，重视教师的工作条件。数据包括 254 份集体谈判协议中关于兼职教师获得教学资源和专业发展的合同条款。该研究分析了专业权利和管理自由裁量权之间与质量相关的工作条件的协商平衡，在兼职和全职教师之间集体协商的管辖范围内分层获得这些工作条件，以及明确提及教育质量和/或公共利益/受益人。调查结果表明，兼职教师的权利/发言权有所提高，在与质量相关的工作条件下与全职教师在一定程度上持平，以及一些对质量/公共利益的明确提及。但他们也谈到了在不提供这些条件方面的相当大的管理自由裁量权，以及兼职教师较少获得这些条件的机会。该研究建立并扩展了学术雇员工作条件的文献，在基于劳动的基本、与质量相关的工作条件的概念中寻找价值，并将教授分层概念化为流动的、偶然的，并由集体协商的管辖权形成。它还指出了改善兼职教师工作条件的可行性，将他们与高等教育联系起来，更多地关注教育质量和公共目的，更好地为学生和社会服务。该研究建立并扩展了学术雇员工作条件的文献，在基于劳动的基本、与质量相关的工作条件的概念中寻找价值，并将教授分层概念化为流动的、偶然的，并由集体协商的管辖权形成。它还指出了改善兼职教师工作条件的可行性，将他们与高等教育联系起来，更多地关注教育质量和公共目的，更好地为学生和社会服务。该研究建立并扩展了学术雇员工作条件的文献，在基于劳动的基本、与质量相关的工作条件的概念中寻找价值，并将教授分层概念化为流动的、偶然的，并由集体协商的管辖权形成。它还指出了改善兼职教师工作条件的可行性，将他们与高等教育联系起来，更多地关注教育质量和公共目的，更好地为学生和社会服务。