Why I’m Voting Against the “Historic” PSC-CUNY Contract for Adjuncts
The contract I will vote against is likely to pass because of a consensus of indifference to changing the conversation around what is “teaching,” and fear of an unknown worse case. No doubt naively, I vote “NO,” hoping to join with others…
Book Review: Should I Go to Grad School? 41 Answers to an Impossible Question.
Edited by Jessica Loudis, Bosko Blagojevic, John Arthur Peetz, and Allison Rodman. Bloomsbury USA. 2014. Review by Deborah Straw Should I Go to Grad School? is a fun book to read. The writing is good; the stories are fascinating; there is a…
Americans Are Having Fewer Kids. How Will That Impact Higher Education & Adjunct Faculty?
by Nathan Grawe Demographic change is a constant force. College campuses are often at the forefront of the shifting composition of each generation. For example, non-Hispanic whites are not projected to become a minority of the U.S.…
Accessible Higher Education Should Be A National Priority
Too often people are held back academically by their situation. This could be due to anything – from a poor home environment to our standardized public education system. This should not be the case. When everyone doesn’t get the opportunity…
Academics Working Abroad Need Better Protection
For researchers and academics at all levels, the problem of misinformation has consequences extending to the very institutions to which they are affiliated. My experience demonstrates how bureaucracy-led universities are not equipping their…
How Campus Equity Week Has Sabotaged Equal Pay for Adjuncts
Thus, the idea that adjuncts all over the country should "educate" the public on the need for pay equity in higher education can only be likened to adjuncts putting belts around their own necks then tightening them. As I have pointed out…
PTer Union in Japan Negotiates End to Fixed-Term Employment Contracts
The abolition of the limited-term employment system at the University of Tokyo allows contract full- or part-time administration staff and (from April this year) part-time teachers to apply for, and be granted, permanent employment after…
S. Korean Legislators Passed the Higher Education Act to Help PT Lecturers—PTers Union Alleges 20K…
However, considering the decrease in the number of both overall and small-sized classes in the first semester, a large number of part-time lecturers could have been fired or at least had the number of their lectures cut. The Korean…
At University of New Mexico, 90 Percent of Adjuncts Vote to Unionize
In interviews with The New Mexican ahead of the vote, faculty members cited a lack of cost-of-living raises, a lack of transparency in hiring and promotion practices, and a lack of stability during periods of leadership turnover as…
Colleges Need $18.9 Billion Annually to Provide “Minimally Good” FT Jobs to 263K…
by P.D. Lesko
In 2016, researchers Jason Brennan and Phillip Magness published "Estimating the Cost of Justice for Adjuncts: A Case Study in University Business Ethics." In their article, the two men offered up some math. According to the…
