News For the Adjunct Faculty Nation

Satire: Adjunct Hunger Strike Fails. No One Noticed the Difference.

The National Adjunct United Coalition (NAUC) ended its hunger strike this week when leaders realized no one had noticed. “We had 300 part-time faculty participate in the campaign this semester, and we’re devastated that their efforts were fruitless,” said NAUC President Samuel Gayle. “I teach at...

Is It My Fault If I Can’t Find FT Teaching?

by Jill Darling I started writing this mini-essay project on contingency at the beginning of the year, and thought I would continue for the duration of 2015. But now I think I.

Book Review: ‘Building a Better Teacher,’ on Secrets of Good Teaching by Elizabeth Green

By Michael S. Roth BUILDING A BETTER TEACHER How Teaching Works (and How to Teach It to Everyone) By Elizabeth Green Norton. 372 pp. $27.95 America has some of the.

Of Fast Food Academics: Adjuncts, Medicaid & Food Stamps

by Laura Finley The workers’ rights movement has exploded in the last few years, with fast food, agricultural and other workers staging strikes and other nonviolent actions to demand increased wages, benefits and better working conditions. One group of workers that has received far too little attention...

Why We Decided To Form An Adjunct Union at Our Community College

by Luke Niebler On my first day teaching at the Community College of Allegheny County in Pittsburgh, I was wracked with the normal anxieties of a new college instructor: What.

Adjuncts Have Fewer Options Than Grad Students at University of Missouri

by Carl Kenney Adjunct professors are often treated like Walmart employees. At Walmart, those pulling the strings are most concerned with making money. Consumers flood the retail giant because of.

To Save Jobs of Adjuncts, FT Faculty Put Off Guaranteed Salary Hikes

Different tiers of faculty don’t always fight with each other over money and control. At Eastern Illinois University, which is suffering from a steep enrollment drop and reduced state support, tenured and tenure-track faculty just put off a negotiated 1.5-percent raise for a year, Inside Higher Ed reports. They did so...

Catholic College: Adjuncts Must Support its ‘Mission’

by Samantha Watkins Catholic intellectual tradition can be applied to anything A Catholic university’s three-year fight against the National Labor Relations Board has spooked some of its faculty, who believe.

Satire: Secretary Becomes President at Copperfield Community College

by Jeffrey Ross, Copperfield Community College Freelance Journalist Irene Easley is “super psyched” to start her new job. The Copperfield Community College governing board today released a statement announcing the.

California Part-time faculty Association Asks Legislators for “Living Wage”

An advocacy organization that represents 40,000 part-time college instructors across California is urging Governor Jerry Brown to make a sea change in how part-timers at schools like Gavilan College—which depends heavily on part-time faculty—are compensated. The California Part-Time Faculty Association is asking the state to create...

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