Paula Patch discussed opportunities for non-tenure-track writing faculty as part of a panel, "Surviving and Thriving while Working off the Tenure-Track: Gender, Contingent Labor, and Writing Instruction in the 21st Century," at the 2014 Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Paula Patch, lecturer in English and Coordinator of the , was a panelist in a Featured Session at the 2014 , held March 19-22 in Indianapolis.
The panel, “Surviving and Thriving while Working off the Tenure-Track: Gender, Contingent Labor, and
Writing Instruction in the 21st Century,” was sponsored by the . In her presentation, titled “Who Are You Calling Contingent? Making the Case—and a Place—for Permanent Non-Tenure Track Faculty in Today’s English Department,” Patch described ways the ways that permanent non-tenure-track positions in composition are mostly invisible in organizational documents and media conversations; argued that this underrepresentation misrepresents the full scope of life and work “off the tenure track”; and called for members of the profession to make the permanent non-tenure-track faculty visible and to begin having a conversation about how the work performed by faculty on these lines complements the work done by tenure, tenure-track, and adjunct faculty on our campuses.