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Student Loan Forgiveness Bill for Adjunct Faculty Introduced in U.S. Senate
As the reliance on part-time faculty grows at colleges and universities across the country, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) introduced legislation that would allow part-time faculty – who are often paid low wages with few benefits – to be…
Colleges Become Gated Communities for the Rich—Staffed By The Working Poor
Attending a four-year public college may soon be out of reach for all but the wealthiest. This is the greatest assault yet to the American dream.
by Andy Kroll
A few months ago, Bobby Stapleton, a 21-year-old student at the University…
Appeal For Fairness For Adjunct Professor Goes To The Pope
by Jim Hightower
If one obscure college professor dies, does it make any difference?
If you’re Margaret Mary Vojtko, yes.
Margaret Mary died last summer at age 83 — and her death has turned her name into an emotional rallying cry…
Austin Community College Adjuncts Rally for Health Coverage
by Becky Stieber Villarreal
The road to health benefits for adjuncts at Austin Community College (ACC) has been long and arduous. Since the college’s inception forty years ago, it has been plagued by its overreliance on contingent…
New Rules Define Workload of Part-Time College Instructors
by Nick Anderson New rules for the Affordable Care Act spell out for the first time a federal method to define the workload of part-time college instructors, but the formula will not necessarily require schools to provide the instructors…
My Dog Has an Ophthalmologist and I Don't
by Jodi Campbell
This was the shocking realization I came to last week. My dog has an ophthalmologist and I don't.
I had to take him to the ophthalmologist for a six month check up, quaking with fear the entire time that something would be…
U of M Lecturers Participate In FLASH MOB To Call Attention To Contract Negotiations
The University of Michigan's Lecturer's union, an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), entered talks for the group's fourth contract with on November 30, 2012. LEO, as the union is known, represents some 1,500 full-time…
Managerial Madness: Why Higher Education Has Lost Its Way
by Debra Leigh Scott
While Chris LaBree and I were on the first leg of our Homeless Adjunct road tour, the updated list of university president salaries was released from The Chronicle of Higher Education. Here we were, traveling the…
Yo! AAUP. You Call This A Plan For Progress? Seriously?!?
by Debra Leigh Scott
I was appalled to read The Chronicle article about the AAUP “plan” to provide “Better Pay, Job Stability, and a Career Path for Contingent Faculty” — to present this plan as anything but the atrocity it is…well, I am…
Why We Won’t Be Seeing an “Adjunct Spring” Anytime Soon
By Elayne Clift Is there any hope for college adjuncts? It was never my intention to teach when I was in the throes of my career as a health communications and gender specialist. But when I was invited to be a lecturer at Yale University’s…