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Gates Foundation Launches Lobbying Arm – With Higher Education in Its Crosshairs
The Gates Foundation’s Postsecondary Value Commission gives some insight into what the Gateses mean by educational outcomes. The commission aims to create a way to measure the value of certain degrees or certificates. If legislators adopt…
The Continuing Saga of College Faculty Forced to Choose Between Food and Shelter
With no job security and low pay in one of the most expensive cities in North America, hundreds of employees at a world-class university are struggling to simply pay their bills.
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Colleagues Abroad: Shattering Myths About Contract Academic Staff
The more than 2,600 survey respondents challenged the institutional line that most low-paid, short-term and part-time teachers love the flexibility of their contract employment. Instead they have shed a gloomy light on exactly what it means…
Adjunct Professor of History Wins Danville Community College Outstanding Faculty Award
Adjunct Professor of History John Kingery earned the distinction and was presented with a plaque from DCC Vice President of Academic and Student Services Debra Holley.
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Robin West Smith Wins Outstanding Adjunct Award at MCCC
by James Quick “Total shock” were the first words out of Robin West Smith’s mouth when asked about winning the Outstanding Adjunct Faculty Award. The professor of Sociology cannot believe she was the recipient of the prestigious award.…
Thousands of International Scholars Call for U.S. Academic Conference Boycott to Protest Muslim…
by Ellie Bothwell More than 4,000 scholars have signed a petition calling for an academic boycott of international conferences held in the U.S., to provide solidarity with those affected by Donald Trump’s ban on travelers from seven…
In UK, More Than Half of Academics Employed on Precarious Contracts
by Jack Grove More than half of academics are employed on precarious contracts, claims a report by the University and College Union on the “hire-and-fire culture of insecure working” within higher education. Some 54 per cent of all academic…
PTers at Algoma University in Ontario Prepared to Strike for Higher Pay
“We’re not looking for the mean salary or the median salary, we are looking to be tied with the bottom, and management (at Algoma) offered us zero for the next three years…we don’t think our request is at all unreasonable,” Robinson said…
Colleagues Abroad: Part-time Lecturers in the UK Speak Out—”I don’t make enough for…
Steve Hanson, 44, part-time lecturer in political sociology I have a doctorate from a great university; I’ve worked on government research projects, and have more published work than many tenured staff. I have been hourly-paid for about…
Stories From the Adjunct Professorate: Bittersweet and, Yes, Bitter
As I speak to contingent faculty from New York to Texas, Seattle to San Francisco, it becomes increasingly clear that academic penury has become the order of the day. This is occurring at a time when higher education – and some salaries…
