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Post by Question on May 1, 2011 15:08:09 GMT -5
Has anyone heard of schools that offer half-time half-pay tenure track positions? If so, do you have any further details on how individuals were able to negotiate these or any details on how they were structured?
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Post by dr maze on May 2, 2011 10:01:01 GMT -5
I have a friend who's in a position like this, at Guilford College, a progressive, private, liberal arts institution. I have no idea how common her situation is there. At Guilford, you get full benefits and everything if you are at least half-time, so all she sacrifices is half her pay. She typically teaches a 1-2, I think.
She and a colleague pitched the idea, I believe, after they had been at the institution for some time. Essentially they split a full-time position. I don't know if they were both tenure-track at the time, and I don't know the circumstances under which it was deemed prudent to lose a full-time position in this way (maybe it allowed the dept to hire an additional colleague with a particular expertise, without requesting a line?).
After having survived a 3-4 load for several years while trying to do my dissertation at the same time, lately I've often wondered myself how to rustle up a half-time position. For my friend, there seems to be plenty of time and energy for community activism and volunteer projects and gardening and such.
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Post by Question on May 2, 2011 12:56:32 GMT -5
Thanks! That's very helpful.
(I am curious if there are these positions in the absence of job-sharing with someone else. It would seem that if you could break up the job to be shared between two people, you could have someone do just half-time, period. But I tend to just hear about this in terms of job sharing.)
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Post by special circumstances on May 2, 2011 16:57:38 GMT -5
As mentioned earlier, these job-sharing situations generally come up to accommodate spousal hires. There isn't much incentive for an institution to create them from the outset, because each employee still has fixed costs (such as health insurance) that make the arrangement less cost-effective. Issues such as splitting faculty voting, awarding tenure, and granting leaves become problematic as well.
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