UC Berkeley: Hundreds of Lecturers now Excluded from Hiring Freeze
UC Berkeley officials abruptly changed course and will exclude more than 750 lecturers from a campus-wide hiring freeze, which went into effect April 1 because of the coronavirus pandemic. The move, announced Wednesday in a letter from…
UC Chancellor Promises No “Career Staff” Layoffs—Excludes Lecturers From Promise
by Janelle Salanga UC President Janet Napolitano and the 10 UC chancellors will be taking a voluntary 10% pay cut during the 2020–2021 UC fiscal year, which begins on July 1, Napolitano said in a May 18 press release. It’s the latest…
At Elon College Faculty Union Pushes to Protect Non-Tenured Faculty
Elon University’s faculty union, Elon Faculty Forward, proposed their “Humane Budget” to the university in early May. The proposal outlines how the union wants the university to protect non-tenured faculty in light of the coronavirus…
Rutgers PT Faculty Union: College Will Lay Off 15% of Adjuncts
by Bob Markin Amid national health and economic crises and during nationwide demonstrations against racial injustice, Rutgers University is choosing to fire its most vulnerable campus workers, a coalition of 19 campus unions said in a…
Gig Professors Need Protection During This Time of Corona Virus
by Christopher Doucet The unprecedented number of Americans suddenly out of work due to the COVID-19 pandemic has imperiled the American economy, revealed the economic precariousness that more than half of American families live under and…
CUNY Adjuncts Threaten Grade Protest Over Layoffs
City University of New York faculty members are so distraught over layoffs that they’re considering withholding spring semester grades. John Jay College’s provost announced last week he planned to eliminate 437 adjunct positions, almost 40…
Survey: Why Students’ Parents Are Concerned About the Quality of Online Instruction
by Gates Bryant A Tyton Partners survey of parents of current and would be college students reveals a deep concern about current distance learning measures, pointing to a potentially meaningful risk to tuition revenue in the 2020-2021…
College Officials Struggle to Decide Whether to Offer On Campus Classes in Fall
by Ellie Hooper Colleges nationwide have begun talking, if speculatively, about the conditions under which they would reopen campuses for the fall 2020 term. Since Boston University released a plan earlier this month indicating how it may…
Iowa Community College Settles with Adjunct Over Facebook Posts that Triggered Dismissal
Kirkwood Community College on Friday finalized an agreement to pay $25,000 to an adjunct professor who was fired for a Facebook post with a controversial political statement. The move allowed the college to avoid a First Amendment lawsuit.…
The CARES Act Guarantees Adjuncts $600 per Week Unemployment Through July 2020
by Adam Raimond Cynthia Vacca Davis has taught as an adjunct writing instructor in Virginia for 11 years. When asked whether she intended to apply for unemployment this summer she said, “I do plan to apply, but I have no idea how it will…
