The Best Made Plans

I didn’t plan for all of the features in this issue to deal with part-time faculty unionization, but sometimes the best plans simply aren’t made—they happen. So it was when I read about the efforts of the part-time faculty at the Community College of Vermont. There, all of the classes are taught by part-timers. The organizers are all long-term, part-time faculty, and the number of part-time faculty teaching in the multiple campus system being tops 700. Then, I had an e-mail from a part-time faculty member at the New School about the work of the part-time faculty there. I found […]