by TAA Staff

SOME PROFESSORS SEE nothing to fear in the growing number of adjuncts on campus. The strike at Long Island University's C. W. Post campus may give them pause. This past spring, full-time faculty tried to shut down the campus to protest what they regarded as inadequate pay and an excessive workload. But they managed to cancel only a third of classes, as adjuncts, who are not part of the full-time faculty union, but rather of the Communication Workers of America, did not join the strike en masse. A few adjuncts may not have crossed the picket line, but most continued to teach their classes, according to Bonnie Borenstein, the university's assistant vice president for academic affairs.

Without support from adjuncts, full-time faculty are losing their bargaining power, admits Ralph Knopf, president of the faculty union and math professor at C. W. Post. He laments the current state of affairs in which adjuncts and full-time temporary instructors comprise an increasing proportion of faculty.

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