Forum: Issues about Part-Time and Full-Time Contingent Faculty is a peer-reviewed publication concerning working conditions, professional life, activism, and perspectives of non-tenure-track faculty in college composition and communication. It is published twice annually (alternately in CCC and TETYC) and is sponsored by the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Faculty and scholars from all academic positions are welcome to contribute.
Editor
Forum editor Kimberly A. Bain can be reached at Kimberly_Bain@pba.edu. She served as chair of the Task Force to Revise the CCCC Statement of Professional Guidance for New Faculty Members. She has also served as an editorial intern for the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction with the University of North Texas Press. Her research focuses on multimodal pedagogies of composition as well as access and linguistic considerations in writing center work. Her work has been published in Composition Studies and Praxis: A Writing Center Journal.
Her editorial vision for Forum centers on considerations for part-time and contingent faculty that are otherwise overlooked in higher education. In particular, the impact on part-time and contingent faculty must be addressed in issues including new technology integration, record-low enrollment rates, reduced job vacancies, and increasing institutional closures in higher education. Moreover, part-time and contingent faculty are often at the heart of writing instruction in higher learning, and identifying the issues they face can shed light on the evolution of postsecondary education in modern contexts.
