The cuts will increase class sizes in required classes at the state university, faculty union officials say.
Howie Swerdloff, an adjunct lecturer in the Rutgers Writing Program, holds pencils representing his 14 years of teaching. The display was part of an art installation for Rutgers Day in protest of pending cuts to instructors.Of 39 adjunct writing instructors, 37 are not expecting to be offered jobs next year, according to the Rutgers AAUP-AFT, the union that represents 6,000 full-time faculty, graduate workers and other faculty.
“The dean’s office has asked that we schedule a limited number of first-year courses now until we know more definitively how many sections are needed in the fall,” she said. “There will be enough class sections to meet the students’ needs,” she said. “Additional writing program sections and lecturers will be added if necessary to meet student demand.”offered through the program are required in most of the university’s schools. About a third of Rutgers’ 40,000 undergraduates on the New Brunswick campus enroll in writing classes each year, according to the union.nationwide are credited with helping freshmen do better in their classes and stay enrolled in school.
Writing classes next semester will be “heaped on” full-time, non-tenure-track faculty, who had recently won workload reductions through the strike settlement, Thompson said. Instructors presented an art installation in front of Murray Hall on the College Avenue campus as thousands of visitors came to campus for Rutgers Day events on Saturday. The art installation included a pencil for each semester each adjunct instructor has worked in the writing program and asked students and parents to ask the administration to restore the course offerings and bring class caps back to 22.
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