“The past four decades have seen a failure of the social contract in faculty employment,” states a new report issued by the American Association of University Professors. Forty years ago, the overwhelming majority of faculty members were on the tenure track, including those whose duties...
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After a yearlong battle, adjunct faculty has gained the right to bargain with the Central Michigan University administration. Members of the Union of Teaching Faculty voted by a margin greater.
Lecturers at the University of Michigan are being urged by their union leaders to sign a tentative contract reached with administrators following a months-long process called “long and often difficult”.
An ambitious effort to establish a Jewish studies program of national prominence at the University at Buffalo has run into some unexpected growing pains after the firing of a longtime Hebrew instructor. The dismissal in April of Rachel Lipsky, who taught Hebrew at UB for...
Washtenaw Community College President Larry Whitworth has been campaigning for a change in Lansing that would allow new community college employees to opt out of the state’s ailing public school.
[private] Adjunct faculty rarely make the crossover to department heads, but one in the College of Agriculture is poised to do just that. Joseph Anderson, adjunct professor at Purdue and.
The University of Illinois on Thursday said it had offered a job to an instructor who was fired over a complaint that he engaged in hate speech in his explanation of Catholic church doctrine on homosexuality. The university also said it will stop allowing the...
New York University was recently found to be in violation of its adjunct professor union contract. The union’s contract requires NYU to compensate adjunct professors who are not re-appointed for.
After months of negotiations, PCC’s Faculty Association will take a vote within the week to approve a new contract for the 2008-2009 academic year that contains no retroactive changes. The.
[private] The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio urged University of Akron officials to reconsider their decision to dismiss adjunct faculty member. Adjunct Matt Williams previously resigned his position in protest over an illegal University policy to collect all job applicants’ DNA. Williams’ resignation in...
