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by Denisa Gandera Editor’s note: Performance-based funding – a policy where a portion of state funding for public colleges and universities is based on how well they perform – is gaining.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) recently upheld a provision in a faculty contract that requires no more than 15 percent of all day courses at state colleges and universities.

by P.D. Lesko The part-time faculty union election underway at Columbia College Chicago looks more like a Windy City whodunnit than anything else, and it's a whodunnit being investigated by.
CUNY’s 30,000-member staff union has ratified its contract after a lengthy contract negotiation with university officials, solidifying higher wages for both tenured faculty and adjunct professors. Members of the union,.

AdjunctNation has been following the struggle of non-tenured lecturers in Italy since 2002. ALLSI Chair David Petrie is still fighting for equal pay and equal treatment for hundreds of non-Italians.
Edited by Keith Hoeller, Vanderbilt University Press, 2014, paperback. by Deborah Straw In Equality for Contingent Faculty, edited by Keith Hoeller, longtime academic labor activist John Hess is quoted as.