The Price of Precarity: A Practitioner’s Journey Into the Neoliberal Academy

To manage costs and maintain personnel flexibility, universities have shifted to hiring more non–tenure-track (NTT) faculty. Clinical faculty are one subset of NTT faculty and, along with teaching, service, and scholarly activities, they provide clinical instruction and internship supervision to the next generation of work-ready practitioners. Based on real events, this case follows a newly hired clinical faculty member who comes from a nonacademic background as she navigates the challenges and pitfalls associated with entering an academic appointment.