Eastern Michigan University’s 450 part-time lecturers are one step closer to gaining union representation. Union organizers filed for an election Wednesday with the Michigan Employment Relations Commission,…
by Ken Ilgunas first posted 12/6/09 to OpenSalon.com I was lying on the floor of my van where the middle pilot chairs used to be, trying to…
by Mona Charen first published in the National Review. The U.S. Civil Rights Commission (yes, it’s still around, and yes, it’s outlived its usefulness) is about to…
by Balarabe Yushau Last year, the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC) Professor Julius Okojie (left) gave a threatening statement to all university lecturers in…
by Stephen Burd A day after the U.S. Department of Education released three-year cohort default rates for federal student loans, for-profit college leaders and lobbyists are breathing…
Pay cuts for instructors are inevitable, a union representative of part-time faculty at the Yuba Community College District says of trustees asking for a 3 percent reduction…
by Tamar Lewin from New York Times 12/18/2009 With colleges and universities cutting back because of the recession, the job outlook for graduate students in language and…
by Rosella Eleanor LaFevre The Adjunct Organizing Committee, a group that aims to unionize Temple’s part-time faculty, declared the week of Nov. 16th Adjunct Awareness Week. Members…
Results are in from the Faculty Focus survey on Twitter usage and trends among college faculty. The survey of approximately 2,000 higher education professionals found that nearly…
by Douglas Rushkoff from The Daily Beast 12/13/09 The results are a bit scary. Not only have computers changed the way we think, they’ve also discovered what…
