RUTGERS University administrators and about 700 of its part-time lecturers have reached a tentative contract agreement. The four-year agreement, reached in September, schedules cumulative pay increases of roughly 25 percent for most of the lecturers. Accordingly, lecturers who teach by the credit will see their...
Author: AdjunctNation Editorial Team
Part-time instructors at the University of Rhode Island and Rhode Island College have voted to unionize, seeking better pay and recognition for their contribution to the two state colleges.The votes.
After six months of negotiations to amend the Lecturers’ Employee Organization’s (LEO) 2004 contract, the LEO Union and the University of Michigan administration have settled. The three-year contact was voted.
by P.D. Lesko It seems ages since I wrote my column. I know that for many of you, this issue of Adjunct Advocate marks a return to the magazine after an interruption in our regular publishing schedule. What we have been doing is planning and...
Oh, Canada To the Editor: Good article and confirming to me just to hear how common the adjunct dilmena can be. Your article echoes everything I have experienced over the.
A. Leigh Deneef, Editor Crauford D. Goodwin, Editor Duke University Press, 2007, 416 pages. $24.95 reviewed by Mark Drozdowski When I finished graduate school six years ago, I wasn’t eyeing.
by Sandy Farran Allison Dube is the kind of professor who greets students by name even though his classes often have more than 100 people. He regularly extends his office hours and provides his home number so students can reach him at any time, and...
Palomar College will immediately launch an investigation into allegations that an administrator illegally changed the grades of five students in a foreign language class last summer, President Bob Deegan said..
Only a fraction of the $35,000 Concordia University will pay former premier Bernard Landry this semester is for teaching, with the rest covering “other tasks,” like networking and forging links.
by Laura Yeager I’ve been an adjunct off and on since 1988. I’ve taught part-time English classes in Iowa, Ohio, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania. For the most part, I’ve chosen my adjunct lifestyle so that I could have time to do my own freelance writing. I...
