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LIU-Brooklyn Faculty Lockout: Why Americans Don’t Care
by P.D. Lesko From The Atlantic (Monthly) to the Pacific, newspapers, magazines, online education news sites, columnists, bloggers, pundits, activists, unionists, Facebook friends and Tweeps worked the “Je Suis Charlie” angle hard on behalf…
Why Every Adjunct Should Be Watching Friedrichs v. the California Teaching Association
by P.D. Lesko Agency fees, or as education union officials refer to them, “fair share fees,” are paid to faculty unions by individuals who either choose not to belong to a union, are barred from belonging to the union, or who…
Why Are FT Faculty STILL Framing the National Discussion About Adjunct Faculty?
by P.D. Lesko
In December 2015, full-time economics professor Howard Bunsis, chair of the American Association of University Professors' Bargaining Congress, told Truthout that the reduction in tenure-track hiring is the number one…
The Exorcists: At Duquesne U, Admins Use Religion to Fight Unionization
by P.D. Lesko Moshe Z. Marvit is an adjunct at the Duquesne University School of Law. He has a piece posted to InTheseTimes.com is which he writes about Duquesne University’s abrupt about face in response to adjunct faculty attempts…
Campus Equity Week Is Just Around the Corner: October 28-Nov 2
by P.D. Lesko
This brief history of Campus Equity Week comes from long-time adjunct activist Chris Storer:
The issues of contingent academic employment in higher education are, we believe, universal. They threaten the foundation of…
On Adjunct Activists and Bottom Feeders
by P.D. Lesko
AdjunctNation will have been advocating on behalf of the nation's non-tenured faculty for 21 years this September. I am pleased and proud of the work we've done, the award-winning reporting we've published and of the recent…
Unionization Boosts Pay For Adjunct Faculty, But Adjuncts Deserve More Than a Boost
by P.D. Lesko
Science, the magazine, posted this to the Careers section of its website on July 29th:
For the 37% of America’s college and university teachers who are adjuncts working part-time and off the tenure track, unionization makes…
1,464 PT Faculty Jobs On the Line At City College of San Francisco Thanks To Accreditation Mess
by P.D. Lesko At the City College of San Francisco, there are more than 3,000 jobs on the line thanks to the decision of the accrediting agency to pull CCSF’s accreditation. Among those 3,000 people who will lose their jobs if…
Mayday Manifesto Signers Call For Minimum $5K Per Course Pay For Adjuncts. How Can So Many People Be…
by P.D. Lesko I scanned the list of signers, and recognized many of the names. Good, hardworking people. Well-intentioned people. I’ve met many of them at conferences over the years. Interviewed several of them for Adjunct Advocate…
Why Michael Bérubé Needs Adjuncts To Believe They're the Victims of Whim & Bad Luck
by P.D. Lesko
I have just read the 2011-2012 AAUP salary survey. While the authors of the survey, Saranna Thorton and John Curtis certainly put thought and effort into their report, it represents yet another damning indictment of the AAUP's…