People hired to teach courses on contract are one of the sticking points in contract talks between the administration at the University of Prince Edward Island and…
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By a margin of 55 per cent to 45 per cent, Mount Allison Faculty Association (MAFA) members rejected the report of the conciliation board on the labour…
The State Employees’ Association last week petitioned regulators for the right to represent adjunct faculty at New Hampshire’s community colleges. Brad Asbury, director of organizing at the…
NYU agreed to extend adjunct professors contracts through January 31, 2011 after months of negotiating with their union through a mediator. The school will continue…
After two years in collective bargaining negotiations, the University of Rhode Island’s part time faculty staff have unionized and created a tentative contract that is set to…
College students use cell phones in class, despite knowing that it adversely affects their concentration, according to a study conducted at the University of New Hampshire. In…
Full-time faculty at Grand Rapids Community College are speaking out against the school’s rapid growth and the president’s management and hiring strategy, specifically that part-time faculty now…
The Office of Development and College Relations and Office of the Provost and Dean of the Faculty have been working together for slightly over a year to…
The Kent State University Faculty Senate voted against supporting bills that would allow part-time faculty, including graduate and teaching assistants, the right to collective bargaining Monday. The…
Washtenaw Community College’s president has put the brakes on a plan to privatize part-time faculty. We wrote about Whitworth’s plan in July/August 2010. To read that piece,…