With only three weeks to go in the winter session, part-time faculty at Concordia University, in Quebec, Canada, are threatening to cancel classes and walk off the…
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Israeli university students started their first semester in mid-January — after a senior lecturers’ strike of nearly 90 days — amidst new threats that the school year…
Portland State University’s part-time faculty union reached an agreement with the university Friday regarding professor pay, after nine months of salary negotiations and almost a month of…
The Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty Association (WLUFA) executives made the decision for contract academic staff (CAS) to go on strike. The major issues still unresolved were a…
Officials at Boise State University are considering ways to improve pay and benefits for part-time, untenured teachers. A commission of full-time faculty, staff and adjuncts at the…
Starting next year, the crowd at the now scantly attended monthly Yale College faculty meetings may grow a bit bigger. At its last meeting of the fall…
Equal Rights Legislation for Adjuncts To the Editor: I enjoyed Keith Hoeller’s article “Equal Rights Legislation for Adjunct Professors” online (Adjunct Advocate, January/February 2007). I work as…
Following months of negotiations with George Washington University, the adjunct faculty union distributed a contract concerning job security, promotions and salaries in mid-December, a union leader said.…
The University and College Union (UCU) attacked employers recently for “blighting” UK higher education by putting the majority of new staff on temporary contracts, five years after…
St. Thomas University, a liberal arts college in Fredericton, New Brunswick, has locked out its 160 unionized full- and part-time faculty and announced its intention to make…
