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Lettori One Step Closer to Victory Over Italian Discrimination

FOR YEARS THEY have been working alongside their Italian colleagues, teaching English and other languages to classes sometimes numbering 150, earning a fraction of the Italians’ salary and enjoying none of their perks. Successive court victories in their long campaign have only brought further discrimination...

Contingent Faculty Capture Largest Number of Guggenheims in a Decade

BETWEEN 1992 AND 2003, adjunct, part-time, full-time temporary and visiting faculty won between 3-7 Guggenheim awards each year, or about 1.5 to 3.7 percent of the total number of awards.

Part-timers at Emerson College Get Their First Contract

THE UNION REPRESENTING part-time professors at Emerson College and the school recently reached an agreement to raise salaries by 15 to 20 percent, and help pay for the health insurance.

Adjunct Faculty at PSU Settle Contract After 10 Month Negotiation

IN JANUARY, THE Portland State University Faculty Association (PSUFA) Local 3571 and the PSU administration came to a tentative agreement on a proposed contract. Adjuncts, or part-time professors, have been without a contract since their previous one expired at the end of June 2003....

Harper College Adjuncts Hold Union Vote

HARPER COLLEGE’S NEARLY 500 part-time faculty members will hold an organizational vote in March, with two unions vying to represent them. The part-time faculty members are being courted by both.

At SIUE A Push for Two Unions: P/T and F/T

ILLINOIS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION organizer David Vitoff and instructor Alan Shiller are pushing for SIUE faculty members to form a union for teaching employees. Professors want to put unions on the.

The 50 Percent Solution

IN JANUARY OF this year, trustees of Southeastern Community College in Iowa learned about a plan to offer incentive pay for retired SCC faculty and staff to return to the college to teach part-time. The college currently employs over 100 part-time faculty on two campuses. No action was...

Faculty Union in California Negotiates Less than One percent raise for Part-Time Faculty Members

LEADERS OF THE United Faculty of Ohlone College, an independent labor union in Fremont, California, recently negotiated a new contract which calls for the college’s more than 250 part-time faculty.

Victor Valley Adjuncts Prepare to Hold Election

WITH CLASSES RESUMING the 285 part-time faculty at Victor Valley Community College will soon have the chance to cast a ballot for union representation, which might help them gain benefits.

Letters to the Editor

Eileen Schell Interview As an aspiring nonagenarian, I object to Eileen Schell’s patronizing remark, “my oldest student is currently 90 years young” (Interview with Eileen Shell, January/February 2004). Attempting to praise old people by calling them young is as illogical and basically bigoted as attempting...

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