The Adjunct Advocate: 10 Years of Adjunct Advocacy
by P.D. Lesko In September of 1992, the Adjunct Advocate debuted. The magazine, a slim 20 pages, had no display advertising and led off with a cover story titled “Health, Wealthy & Wise”: Finding Affordable Health Care.” The issue also featured the very first “Reportcard.” The feature, as we explained it to readers back then, “focuses on individual schools, and their treatment of the adjunct faculty. The Adjunct Advocate is a tough grader, but then again some colleges and universities aren’t treating their adjuncts fairly.” We sent a copy of each Reportcard directly to the President of the featured school and never once, in […]