by Silvia Foti Creating citizens engaged in maintaining democracy entails intentionally increasing the people’s knowledge of the democratic process, their skills, and their motivation. This falls under…
by P.D. Lesko The Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor (COCAL) sprang forth from the National Congress of Adjunct, Part-time, Graduate Teaching Assistants and Non-Tenure Track Faculty. The…
by Peter Connor It’s a given—students are going to complain about the grades they receive. Also given, is your responsibility to handle such complaints. Generally speaking, this…
by the AdjunctNation.com’s Part-Time Thoughts Blogger In Portland, Oregon, the Portland State University Faculty Association is 30 years old. I came across an article about…
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by Steven N. Pyser, J.D. Distance learning faculty are experiencing the Chinese proverb, “May you live in exciting times.” Computers are fully integrated into our…
Two hundred part-time teachers and support staff at Durham College are being included in one of the largest union membership drives in Ontario history. The Ontario Public…
With only three weeks to go in the winter session, part-time faculty at Concordia University, in Quebec, Canada, are threatening to cancel classes and walk off the…
Israeli university students started their first semester in mid-January — after a senior lecturers’ strike of nearly 90 days — amidst new threats that the school year…
Portland State University’s part-time faculty union reached an agreement with the university Friday regarding professor pay, after nine months of salary negotiations and almost a month of…
The Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty Association (WLUFA) executives made the decision for contract academic staff (CAS) to go on strike. The major issues still unresolved were a…