EVEN THOUGH THE adjuncts union is slowly gaining ground at NYU, its officials are charging the university with not fully complying with the contract signed last May,…
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In the wake of last fall’s bitter, three-week strike, administrators at the City Colleges of Chicago are moving to fire as many as 140 part-time and emeritus…
The benefit was an important victory adjuncts won when they hammered out their first-ever contract with the university last spring. Eligible adjuncts enrolled from Nov. 11 to…
A Chinese language newspaper recently reported that National Yunlin University of Science of Technology in Taipei was planning to hire Russian professors, by offering them just NT$10,000…
Everyone Makes Mistakes I thumbed through the gratis copy of your magazine I just received, and I do hope that writer James Ottavio Castagnera (“Everybody Lies,” Adjunct…
A nationwide survey of foreign professors in Japan reveals that those who do the most work are younger, less experienced teachers either on limited-term or part-time contracts,…
More than six weeks after a vote to form a union of part-time faculty at GW, the results of the election remain unknown as organizers and the…
“Big Tent” Organizing in Canada I was pleased to see the article on Canadian organizing and the “big tent” strategy in the latest issue of the magazine…
Part-time lecturers in Korea belong to the low-income sector and their welfare status is worrisome, lawmakers recently said, citing data provided during October’s National Assembly inspection hearings.…
Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee found favor with part-time teachers in the state-aided colleges across Bengal when the government decided to take up a proposal to enhance their…
