News For the Adjunct Faculty Nation

Supreme Court Could Hear Second Legal Challenge to Forced Agency Fees Paid by Tens of Thousands of Adjunct Union Members

by Carolyn Phenicie There also could be a path to revive the basic premise, but not the specific case, from last year’s teacher-union-dues case, Friedrichs v. California. Teacher Rebecca Friedrichs argued that forcing her to pay “fair share” fees to the local teachers union was a First...

Analysis: 69,000 AFT Members Disappear

Mike Antonucci, writing for The 74, a non-profit, non-partisan news site covering education in America, delves into a topic that AdjunctNation has written about many times: higher education union membership numbers.

Barnard Adjunct Faculty Union Calls Strike to Get $9K Per Course Minimum

by P.D. Lesko The Barnard Contingent Faculty union, affiliated with the United Auto Workers, is ready to strike in order to force college officials to raise per course pay for.

Why Adjuncts Shouldn’t Need Ph.D.s

by Jonathan Rick When hiring a professor, nearly every college uses commonly agreed-upon criteria. Among these, perhaps the most important is whether the applicant has a graduate degree. On one hand, credentials are a critical part of a school’s brand. Given that students are paying an...

The Extra Credit Experiment

by Laura Yeager I tried something new last semester in College Writing I--extra credit. I've never offered extra credit points in a college class before (I thought it was kind of.

Listed Prof. Says: "Professor Watchlist Gets an F for Accuracy"

by Peter Dreier I'm one of the roughly 200 professors listed on the Professor Watchlist, which claims to “expose and document college professors who discriminate against conservative students.” It was launched on.

Could President Trump’s Extremist Education Agenda Impact College Faculty?

by Jeffrey Bryant Donald Trump’s election to the U.S. presidency left education policy experts at a complete loss to explain what this would mean for the nation’s schools. During his campaign, Trump gave few clues about what would inform his education leadership, only that he had some antipathy...

How Your Student Evals Are Killing Your Chances for a FT Job (And Better Pay)

by P.D. Lesko What are the most credible methods and evaluative tools to use when deciding whether to rehire an adjunct faculty member? This is a question that should be asked by hundreds of thousands of college.

As States Take Aim at Public College Tenure, Adjuncts May Come Out on Top

by John A. Neilsson Iowa State Sen. Brad Zaun, R-Urbandale, again has filed a bill seeking to end the tenure system at Iowa’s three state universities. Sen. Zaun has filed.

AFT President Says Betsy DeVos a “Lobbyist” not an Educator

P.D. Lesko In a speech yesterday at the National Press Club, AFT President Randi Weingarten juxtaposed two approaches for education that would have vastly different consequences for America’s students. Either build on the bipartisan consensus of the Every Student Succeeds Act to provide all families with access...

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