Tara Conant is an adjunct in Massachusetts and teaches at two schools within 25 miles of each other—a drive that she can afford to make, even now…
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In an era when college tuition increases outpace the rate of inflation and universities continue to rely heavily on the part-time professors who routinely make up 40…
When Hurricane Katrina swept through New Orleans on August 29, 2005, it damaged not only the city and the campuses of its 11 accredited, non-profit four- and…
On May 1, 2006, Apollo Group, Inc., the parent corporation of the University of Phoenix, announced the resignation of its president, Dr. Laura Palmer Noone, who has…
What’s Mine is Mine and What’s Yours is Mine To the Editor: Greetings. Thank you for publishing Paul Collins’s “What’s Mine Is Mine, and What’s Yours…
On March 7th, 2006, 9,100 full- and partial-load faculty members of the Ontario Public Services Employees Union (OPSEU) took to the picket lines to protest pay and…
A University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) lecturer makes no excuses for offering students a 70 to not show up for his course. But the administration gives…
At New York University, adjuncts and graduate teaching assistants are represented by the same collective bargaining agent—the monolithic and distinctly blue-collar United Auto Workers—but it doesn’t mean…
The union, which represents 74 percent of Columbia’s teaching faculty, approved the new contract after a vote on Jan. 11th. From the 600 ballots mailed out in…
A part-time lecturer has won record compensation after claiming she was paid less than her colleagues despite working more hours. Susan Birch-Maxton was awarded £25,000 and given…