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Washington Part-Time Faculty Association Opposes State Senate Bill Aimed At “Equity” for PTers

Washington Part-Time Faculty Association leader Keith Hoeller testified before the Washington State Legislature: “Though the bill repeatedly uses the words “equity and inclusion,” this bill will increase the inequities and exclusion under which the 8,000 part-time faculty labor in our thirty-four community colleges.” Editor’s note:...

Colleges Petition Congress For $120 Billion for Coronavirus Relief Bill

A coalition of U.S. colleges and universities is urging Congress to pass a new coronavirus relief bill with at least $120 billion for higher education, saying the sector faces a crisis of.

Most Universities Are Going Hybrid—Mixing Online and In-Person Teaching

Most universities in the United States have chosen to offer a mix of in-person and online instruction in the coming academic year as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and.

New Study: One-Third of College Students Face Food Insecurity

by James Burch In another era, student poverty might have meant a brief period of hardship during a life of relative affluence. Plenty of graduates joke about the old days when they survived on macaroni and cheese or crackers for a week. This is different. What...

Colleges Layoff Underpaid Adjuncts then Challenge Their Unemployment Claims

by Keith Hoeller “We Now Have the Worst Unemployment Rate Since the Great Depression,” read Slate’s headline. The 20.5 million jobs lost in April and the nearly 15% unemployment rate “may understate the.

Study: 90 Percent of Student Sexual Harassment Perpetrated by Men

by Stephen Aguilar In 2017, Karen Kelsky, a consultant for people looking for academic jobs, launched a survey to capture people’s experiences of sexual harassment at colleges and universities. I took interest in this.

NEA Claims With Government Bailout, 153,721 Education Jobs Projected to be Lost Could be Restored

McConnell’s wait-and-see tactics put students in limbo as states grapple with reopening plans by Staci Maiers If the economic damage wrought by the coronavirus pandemic isn’t answered with immediate, additional funding for states and localities, the United States is projected to lose 1.9 million education...

Survey: Why Students’ Parents Are Concerned About the Quality of Online Instruction

by Gates Bryant A Tyton Partners survey of parents of current and would be college students reveals a deep concern about current distance learning measures, pointing to a potentially meaningful.

College Officials Struggle to Decide Whether to Offer On Campus Classes in Fall

by Ellie Hooper Colleges nationwide have begun talking, if speculatively, about the conditions under which they would reopen campuses for the fall 2020 term. Since Boston University released a plan.

Majority of Adjunct Faculty Say They’d Leave Academia if A Different Job Opportunity Arose

by P.D. Lesko In December 2019, AdjunctNation.com posed this question to over 7,000 social media followers: "If you had a job opportunity outside Academia, would you leave?" Of the 150 faculty who responded, a large number of them said they would, indeed, abandon teaching if...

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