United Steel Workers File to Represent 3,500 Part-Timers on Five Pitt Campuses
Pitt faculty began collecting confidential union cards in January 2018. Their goals include addressing concerns about pay and job security for adjunct and part-time faculty. They also would like to see more academic freedom and greater…
SEIU Ends Effort to Organize NTT Faculty at Vanderbilt
by Rachel Friedman In November 2018, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) withdrew its petition to unionize Non-Tenure Track (NTT) faculty members in the College of Arts and Science, marking the end of an ongoing movement to …
Why Wright State University PTers Should Apply for Striking FTers’ Jobs
Adjunct faculty support of or deference to full-time faculty who strike is lunacy. At Wright State University, these full-time faculty are striking because they want more money, don't like sharing more in the cost of the health care options…
Our Common Interest: Defending Higher Education and Changing the World (A Reply)
by Joseph G. Ramsey, Ph.D.
Having now re-read AdjunctNation's response to my essay "The Invisible Faculty," and having had a chance to digest a range of responses to both the AdjunctNation piece and mine, I'm prepared to offer some…
Why FT Faculty Will Never Speak Out for PT Faculty
The plea du jour to tenured and tenure-line college faculty is to "stand up" for adjunct and part-time teaching faculty. The argument is that in doing so those full-time faculty will benefit. This is yet another wild pitch in the dirt from…
Why The Poor Working Conditions For Part-timers Should Matter to Full-timers
But while the working conditions of these sessional instructors is a central problem to be tackled at universities, many full-time professors are also awakening to the rising difficulties associated with their job. In fact, the ‘sessional…
Science May Have Found a Cure for the “Adjunct Syndrome”
The challenges, struggles, poor pay and non-existent institutional support continue to crush the life out of hundreds of thousands of non-tenured faculty. Will the general public ever care? I don't think so. While mainstream media continue…
The Continuing Saga of College Faculty Forced to Choose Between Food and Shelter
With no job security and low pay in one of the most expensive cities in North America, hundreds of employees at a world-class university are struggling to simply pay their bills.This article is only available to subscribers. If you're a…
What Public Universities Must do to Regain Public Support
Universities have lost public support in recent years. In order to get it back, college presidents should worry less about how their institutions fare in college rankings and focus more on affordability, great teaching and doing research…
New Study: The Rise of the Temporary Workforce in Science Research
The time over which half of the cohort has left the field has shortened from 35 years in the 1960s to only 5 years in the 2010s. In addition, researchers found a rapid rise (from 25 to 60% since the 1960s) of a group of scientists who spend…