Higher education institutions have adopted diversity course requirements while hiring more faculty members off the tenure track. Non-tenure track faculty members’ experiences teaching required diversity courses while navigating their precarious employment status has not been sufficiently explored. Addressing this need, the present study examined the experiences of non-tenure track instructors teaching diversity courses as part of general education programs at five colleges and how they understood their relationships to the diversity course requirement and the institution. Instructors perceived themselves as institutional “heavy lifters,” yet emphasized that their precarious status left them disconnected from the diversity requirement and the larger campus.

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“大学的举重运动员”：非终身教职教师教学所需的多元化课程

高等教育机构采用了多元化的课程要求，同时聘请了更多的非终身教职员工。非终身制教职员工在指导他们不稳定的就业状况时教授所需的多元化课程的经验尚未得到充分探索。针对这一需求，本研究调查了非终身制教师在五所大学作为通识教育计划的一部分教授多样性课程的经验，以及他们如何理解他们与多样性课程要求和机构的关系。教师认为自己是机构的“举重运动员”，但强调他们不稳定的地位使他们与多样性要求和更大的校园脱节。