Following months of negotiations with George Washington University, the adjunct faculty union distributed a contract concerning job security, promotions and salaries in mid-December, a union leader said. Kip Lornell, who is both a union leader and an adjunct music professor, said he is confident the...
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The University and College Union (UCU) attacked employers recently for “blighting” UK higher education by putting the majority of new staff on temporary contracts, five years after new regulations were.
St. Thomas University, a liberal arts college in Fredericton, New Brunswick, has locked out its 160 unionized full- and part-time faculty and announced its intention to make use of the.
Several members of the Wayne State University Union of Part-Time Faculty (UPTF) demonstrated in the center of Detroit’s Wayne State University campus to increase awareness about upcoming contract negotiations. Union representatives began talks with university administrators in November. There are approximately 900 adjunct faculty at...
On the same day The New York Times printed an article with national scope about the decline of tenured professors in colleges across America, the union that represents CUNY employees.
[private] Lack of office space, class over-enrollment and unbalanced salaries are a few of many concerns that still plague adjunct faculty at Webster University in Missouri, some adjuncts said. A.
Becky Meadows Wilson of Carrollton, Kentucky has filed a formal grievance with Ivy Tech College, claiming that her contract with the school was not renewed because of a flap over a concert she was organizing to benefit part-time instructors who work without health benefits. Ivy...
The negotiating teams of the Acadia University Faculty Association (AUFA) and Board of Governors met Wednesday evening at the Board’s request; however, the discussion was short lived. “We are very.
RUTGERS University administrators and about 700 of its part-time lecturers have reached a tentative contract agreement. The four-year agreement, reached in September, schedules cumulative pay increases of roughly 25 percent.
Part-time instructors at the University of Rhode Island and Rhode Island College have voted to unionize, seeking better pay and recognition for their contribution to the two state colleges.The votes mirror a national trend as more part-time faculty — which make up about half of...
