my name is jennifer gonzalez and i am the correspondent for the show. i want to thank all of you for being here today and i think it would help the audience if we started by explaining the differences in terms. in the academic world we have professors who are tenured, we have professors who are part-time or adjunct. so jonathan, i know you are good at helping me explain that. just explain to the audience the differences. well if you go back 40 years, the majority of the faculty in the cal state university system like most universities, were full-time tenured faculty. and tenure provides job security, provides due process rights, provides academic freedom. and then because of a series of economic decisions underfunding, especially public universities over the last 50 years, there's been a decline in tenure line positions and an increase in the number of faculty of the tenure line, known by different terms at different institutions: adjuncts, in the csu, lecturers, who lack structural job security and often times they are much lower paid and have differen