A Helpful Contingent Faculty Compromise: Equal Pay for (75% of) Equal Work
We all know that contingent faculty members are underpaid, yet administrators rarely take seriously the arguments championing equal pay for equal work. It's time for a new approach.This article is only available to subscribers. If you're a…
Teaching Students How to Dissent is Part of Democracy
As a scholar in the philosophy of education, I would argue that our children, as burgeoning citizens, are entitled to such an education in our schools.This article is only available to subscribers. If you're a subscriber, log in. To…
When Race Triggers a Call to Campus Police
College campuses can be unwelcoming environments for racial minorities, including adjunct and part-time faculty of color. This article is only available to subscribers. If you're a subscriber, log in. To subscribe, choose the subscription…
UM Lecturers Bargain New Contract That Hikes Salaries By Over 50 Percent
“Transformative Agreement” delivers pay raises on all campuses and improvements
in health care and job security.
This article is only available to subscribers. If you're a subscriber, log in. To subscribe, choose the subscription that…
Supreme Court Overturns 40-year-old Precedent: Adjuncts No Longer Required to Pay Agency Fees to…
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Wednesday in Janus v. AFSCME that nonunion workers cannot be forced to pay fees to public sector unions.This article is only available to subscribers. If you're a subscriber, log in. To subscribe, choose the…
New Study: Republicans, Democrats Disagree About the Point of Higher Education
On many issues, Republicans and Democrats are in agreement. But on at least one point—how and why higher education should be funded—a big gulf exists between the two parties.This article is only available to subscribers. If you're a…
College of Staten Island Adjuncts Rally for 100 Percent Pay Increase—$7K/Course
Currently in contract negotiations, the union is demanding compensation of $7,000 per course, up from its current average of $3,500 per course for adjunct faculty.This article is only available to subscribers. If you're a subscriber, log…
Book Review: “My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture”
My Word! is written in a scholarly style. Blum also uses personal examples from her teaching background. Chapters are best read individually, with time spent between them to ponder the concepts or look at some of her references. The book…
Arizona Community College Underpays Hundreds of Adjuncts After Payroll System Upgrade
Paycheck errors began in February when the college district launched a major upgrade to its human-resources technology system.This article is only available to subscribers. If you're a subscriber, log in. To subscribe, choose the…
Book Review: “Gypsy Scholars, Migrant Teachers and the Global Academic Proletariat: Adjunct…
Gypsy Scholars, Migrant Teachers and the Global Academic Proletariat: Adjunct Labour in Higher Education, a collection of fourteen essays by male and female adjuncts in the U.S. and in other countries, is extremely diverse in subject…