In Adjunct Advocate's May/June 2006 "Colleagues Abroad" issue there was a piece about part-time and contract faculty in India. The piece, titled "The Three Dollar Professor: Teaching…
Part-Time Thoughts
Mark Miller is the President of the part-time faculty union at Allan Hancock College, in California. I recently read a piece he wrote titled "In Defense of…
If you haven't noticed from my past entries that I like a bit of cheekiness (well, maybe even a lot of cheekiness), then you're not reading my…
Congratulations to the adjunct faculty at NYU who won Outstanding Teaching Awards last week. The Outstanding Teaching Award is a sub-category of NYU's "Golden Dozen," competition. The…
John Pawlowski heads the 1,000 member part-time faculty union at Pace University in New York, the Union of Adjunct Faculty at Pace (UAFP). Four years ago, the…
If you've never heard of COCAL, check out this piece in Adjunct Advocate, and this site, as well. In August of this year, COCAL is holding its…
In a piece recently written for Inside Higher Ed, the writer calls Washington State part-timer and long-time national adjunct activist Keith Hoeller's writing "anti-union." I read and…
Both of the candidates running for President of the American Association of University Professors are self-identfied "contingents." I am not going to rehash that convo again. Since…
In this week's Chronicle of Higher Education, there is an article written by David Glenn and headlined "Keep Adjuncts Away From Intro Courses, Report Says." The editor…
In 2002, the contract between Concordia University, in Quebec, Canada, and the Concordia University Part-time Faculty Association (CUPFA) expired. CUPFA represents 1,200 part-time faculty, who teach 40…
