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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled Jan. 28 that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has no jurisdiction over the university’s adjunct faculty. According to the ruling, the NLRB does not have the authority to…

by Don McIntosh After 15 months of frustrating negotiations, it took just two days of striking for about 500 community college faculty to win the best union contract they’ve ever had. Members of Clark College Association for Higher…

Reviewed by Doreen Lewis, PhD This is a review of Going the Distance: A Handbook for Faculty Who Teach Online (Second Edition) by Happy Gingras, Patricia Adams and Evelyn Beck, Copyright 2019, Part-Time Press, Inc. ISBN-13:…

by Patricia A. Alexander and Lauren M. Singer Trakhman Today’s students see themselves as digital natives, the first generation to grow up surrounded by technology like smartphones, tablets and e-readers. Teachers, parents and policymakers…

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 the U.S. Department of Labor. The part-time…

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, called the…

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 saying, “No contingent faculty is…

by Mark Edmundson. Bloomsbury, 2013. Hardcover. Review by Deborah Straw In “A Word to the New Humanities Professor,” Mark Edmundson, Professor of English, recommends the way to consider the job and the students. “He must take very…

by Dr. Leah Hollis, Ed.D, Patricia Berkly L.L.C., 2012. Review by Deborah Straw As an adjunct teacher at several colleges, I have been bullied more than a few times. A colleague, a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures, responded when I…

Edited by Jessica Loudis, Bosko Blagojevic, John Arthur Peetz, and Allison Rodman. Bloomsbury USA. 2014. Review by Deborah Straw Should I Go to Grad School? is a fun book to read. The writing is good; the stories are fascinating; there is a…