by P.D. Lesko I recently read this great opinion piece by Julien Berman published in the Harvard Crimson. Titled "Adjuncts: The Faculty Underclass," I expected it to…
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by P.D. Lesko Lorgia García Peña was denied tenure at Harvard in 2019. According to a breathy piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education, "García Peña, who…
by P. D. Lesko The Washington State House College and Workforce Development Committee will be hearing 2ESSB 5194 on Monday March 21, 2021. It would be a…
by P.D. Lesko In 2016, the U.S. EEOC recognized for the first time, in conciliating a wage theft case, that wage theft can represent discrimination based on…
by P.D. Lesko In total, colleges and universities across the U.S. employ close to five million people. Data from the U.S. Department of Labor show that, to…
by P. D. Lesko For many years, I have made myself unpopular among higher education union leaders for pointing out unions blatantly unequal representation of their adjunct…
by P.D. Lesko College administrators are re-calculating their six-, seven-, eight-, nine- and ten-figure budgets, and battening down the golden hatches on their mega-yachts. There are rumblings…
by P.D. Lesko On January 12, 2020 Robert Reich (@RBReich) Tweeted this observation: "American capitalism in a nutshell: The same day it was announced that Boeing CEO…
by P.D. Lesko Last week was Campus Equity Week (CEW), in case you didn't know. From October 21-25, adjunct faculty and their allies were encouraged to use…
by P.D. Lesko In 2016, researchers Jason Brennan and Phillip Magness published "Estimating the Cost of Justice for Adjuncts: A Case Study in University Business Ethics." In…
