For those unfamiliar with this particular saint, St. Lawrence was roasted alive on a grill. Legend has it that rather than tell the Roman soldiers where the…
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It has been a loooooong road making the switch from print to digital. Thus far, we have had nothing but positive responses from readers. I have been…
On the 20th of November, the New York Times ran a piece titled "Decline of Tenure Track Raises Concerns." In that piece, Keith Hoeller, an adjunct activist…
Welcome to Lesko blog, my new blog. Here, I'll have an opportunity to speak directly to our readers about publishing the Adjunct Advocate. I also want to…
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…
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…