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Adjuncts Win the Right to Get Sick

by Jack Longmate IN WASHINGTON STATE, 2SSB 6811 will provide for “pro-rata sick leave” and leave sharing for part-time community college faculty. The bill, written by Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles of Seattle, passed the Senate by a vote of 49 to 1 (Feb 14) and the House...

Female Astronomers & the Glass Ceiling

by Sally Pye EVEN THE COSMOS has a glass ceiling, according to information to be discussed at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society this week. Things are not as.

EMULOC Wins Big: MFT Press Release

ISSUING A DECISION in favor of the Eastern Michigan University Lecturers Organizing Congress (EMULOC), the Michigan Employment Relations Commission (MERC) has granted the right of union representation to full-time lecturers at Eastern.

California Part-Timers Picket Chancellor’s Office

by Pamela Weiger WHILE IT MAY ONLY be part of their reason for teaching, pay has become a major issue for part-time instructors at California’s community colleges. The compensation issue turned more than 50 of the teachers into protesters earlier this month as they marched in front...

Female Astronomers & the Glass Ceiling

by Sally Pye EVEN THE COSMOS has a glass ceiling, according to information to be discussed at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society this week. Things are not as.

Adjuncts Snag Five Percent of Fulbrights

by P.D. Lesko IN 1999-2000 ADJUNCT faculty won 42 or just over five percent of the 800 Fulbright Foreign Scholarships available. In 1998-1999, adjunct faculty were awarded slightly less than.

Allan Hancock Part-Timers Vote for Union Representation

by D. J. Brasket AFTER MORE THAN two years of struggle, part-time faculty instructors at Allan Hancock College, in California, won union representation by an overwhelming majority. Of the 315 part-timers who voted, 84 percent supported representation by the Communication Workers of America (CWA). Although part-timers began...

California Part-Timers Picket Chancellor's Office

by Pamela Weiger WHILE IT MAY ONLY be part of their reason for teaching, pay has become a major issue for part-time instructors at California’s community colleges. The compensation issue turned.