At Clark College, Adjuncts Will Earn 65 Percent of FT Faculty Pay Rates
by Don McIntosh After 15 months of frustrating negotiations, it took just two days of striking for about 500 community college faculty to win the best union contract they’ve ever had. Members of Clark College Association for Higher…
Book Review: Going the Distance: A Handbook for Faculty Who Teach Online (Second Edition)
Reviewed by Doreen Lewis, PhD This is a review of Going the Distance: A Handbook for Faculty Who Teach Online (Second Edition) by Happy Gingras, Patricia Adams and Evelyn Beck, Copyright 2019, Part-Time Press, Inc. ISBN-13:…
Majority of Adjunct Faculty Say They’d Leave Academia if A Different Job Opportunity Arose
by P.D. Lesko
In December 2019, AdjunctNation.com posed this question to over 7,000 social media followers: "If you had a job opportunity outside Academia, would you leave?" Of the 150 faculty who responded, a large number of them said…
Students Claim to Remember More When Reading on Screens, But Their Actual Performance Suffers
by Patricia A. Alexander and Lauren M. Singer Trakhman Today’s students see themselves as digital natives, the first generation to grow up surrounded by technology like smartphones, tablets and e-readers. Teachers, parents and policymakers…
Higher Education Is Not Under Attack; It’s Drowning In Greed, Hypocrisy and Arrogance
by P.D. Lesko
On January 12, 2020 Robert Reich (@RBReich) Tweeted this observation: "American capitalism in a nutshell: The same day it was announced that Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg will receive a $62M golden parachute... 2,800…
Should College Funding be Tied to Student Graduation Rates?
by Denisa Gandera Editor’s note: Performance-based funding – a policy where a portion of state funding for public colleges and universities is based on how well they perform – is gaining in popularity. Colleges are often judged by their…
Mass. Court Rules Adjuncts Can Teach Only 15% of Day Courses at State Colleges & Universities
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) recently upheld a provision in a faculty contract that requires no more than 15 percent of all day courses at state colleges and universities be taught by part-time faculty. “This rule regards…
Will My Students Learn Better if I am a Monkey Wrench in the System or a Cog?
by Kent Oswald
Does anyone know, and will they share, the purpose of higher education, both the learning and teaching parts? I’ve experienced big and small, private and public, research- and teaching-focused college and graduate school.…
A Chicago Classic: Membership Plummeted, Debt Skyrocketed & the PT Union Prez Paid Herself…
by P.D. Lesko
The part-time faculty union election underway at Columbia College Chicago looks more like a Windy City whodunnit than anything else, and it's a whodunnit being investigated by the U.S. Department of Labor. The part-time…
Despite Push Back From Adjunct Groups, CUNY Union Contract Ratified
CUNY’s 30,000-member staff union has ratified its contract after a lengthy contract negotiation with university officials, solidifying higher wages for both tenured faculty and adjunct professors. Members of the union, called the…
