FORUM FALL 18 A1 I N S I D E The Question of Agency A1 Amy Lynch-Biniek, Editor Collaboration and Resistance: Academic Freedom and Non-Tenured Labor A4 Anicca Cox Tenure, Academic Freedom, and Consequences: Oh, My! A13 Natalie M. Dorfeld FORUM ISSUES ABOUT PART-TIME AND CONTINGENT FACULTY CONFERENCE ON COLLEGE COMPOSITION AND COMMUNICATION 22.1 FALL 2018 The Question of Agency Amy Lynch-Biniek, Editor When Holly Hassel and I decided to combine efforts on a special joint issue of Teaching English in the Two-Year College (TETYC) and Forum focused on academic freedom, I knew the subject matter would be of much interest to Forum’s read- ers and contributors. (Note: Forum is distributed inside of TETYC each spring, and inside of CCC each fall. Readers of just one of those journals may not realize that one yearly issue of Forum is available as part of subscriptions to both publications, and all issues can be freely accessed on NCTE’s website.) As we noted in our co- authored introduction to those issues, “Unquestionably, contingency complicates agency as it does every element of teaching. Even on campuses where contingent faculty have more protections and stability, they may encounter policies that under- mine their ability to act. Guidelines that tenure-line faculty may not give a second thought can have a paralyzing effect on adjunct faculty and stife their professional judgement” (335). The contributions to TETYC and Forum in that joint issue demon- strate that non-tenure-track faculty should play an enormous role in conversations about academic freedom, as certain manifestations of the stakes, defnitions, and consequences of exercising it can be distinctive to them. Those stakes and consequences play out often in the review and editorial pro- cesses at Forum. As editor, I have counseled non-tenure-track contributors weigh- ing the risks of publishing articles that analyze or critique labor practices, especial- ly those at their places of employment. More than once, a writer has chosen not to