News For the Adjunct Faculty Nation

Anger in the Back Row

Kat Kiefer-Newman “Actors understand the infinite vastness hiding inside each human being, the characters not played, the characteristics not revealed. Schoolteachers can see every day that, given the chance, the sullen pupil in the back row can sing, dance, juggle, do mathematics, paint, and think.”—Wallace Shawn...

The Next Higher Education Woe That Will Be Blamed on Adjuncts

By P.D. Lesko Over the course of the past three years, adjunct and part-time faculty have been systematically scape-goated for any number of problems plaguing the Academy. Students dropping out.

Of Course There’s A Fissure. Actually, a Fjord

By P.D. Lesko I had the pleasure of publishing Jack Longmate’s writing many years ago. He has been writing and speaking out on behalf of Washington State’s non-tenured faculty for.

Washington State Union Asks Adjunct VP to Resign For Defending Adjunct Interests

The vice president for the Olympic College Association of Higher Education asked the OC AHE secretary to step down from his position for acting inconsistent with the union’s stance. Union VP for OC Chip Barker sent an e-mail to union Secretary for OC Jack Longmate February...

Catholic College Claims Adjuncts Don’t have the Right to Unionize

By G. Jeffrey MacDonald According to Elbert Tellem, the NLRB’s acting regional director, Manhattan College can’t prohibit adjunct faculty from unionizing because the school’s core purpose isn’t religious enough to.

Tales of Unprepared Undergrads

By Jesse Singal Many American college students aren’t learning anything. That’s the distressing claim of Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses, a new book by sociologists Richard Arum and.

Brooklyn College Lecturer Rehired After U.S. Congressman Tries To Have Him Fired

By Sarah Pomar Brooklyn students and faculty won an important victory for academic freedom when they forced the administration to rehire an adjunct lecturer who was unjustly fired after a student complained that his class syllabus contained writings about the Palestinian struggle, and then a state...