Supreme Court Overturns 40-year-old Precedent: Adjuncts No Longer Required to Pay Agency Fees to…
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Wednesday in Janus v. AFSCME that nonunion workers cannot be forced to pay fees to public sector unions.This article is only available to subscribers. If you're a subscriber, log in. To subscribe, choose the…
New Study: Republicans, Democrats Disagree About the Point of Higher Education
On many issues, Republicans and Democrats are in agreement. But on at least one point—how and why higher education should be funded—a big gulf exists between the two parties.This article is only available to subscribers. If you're a…
College of Staten Island Adjuncts Rally for 100 Percent Pay Increase—$7K/Course
Currently in contract negotiations, the union is demanding compensation of $7,000 per course, up from its current average of $3,500 per course for adjunct faculty.This article is only available to subscribers. If you're a subscriber, log…
Book Review: “My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture”
My Word! is written in a scholarly style. Blum also uses personal examples from her teaching background. Chapters are best read individually, with time spent between them to ponder the concepts or look at some of her references. The book…
Arizona Community College Underpays Hundreds of Adjuncts After Payroll System Upgrade
Paycheck errors began in February when the college district launched a major upgrade to its human-resources technology system.This article is only available to subscribers. If you're a subscriber, log in. To subscribe, choose the…
Book Review: “Gypsy Scholars, Migrant Teachers and the Global Academic Proletariat: Adjunct…
Gypsy Scholars, Migrant Teachers and the Global Academic Proletariat: Adjunct Labour in Higher Education, a collection of fourteen essays by male and female adjuncts in the U.S. and in other countries, is extremely diverse in subject…
University of Michigan Lecturers Set Strike for April 9th and 10th
Lecturers want 80 percent pay hikes for their 1,700 members who teach on the Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint campuses. This article is only available to subscribers. If you're a subscriber, log in. To subscribe, choose the subscription that…
Some of My Students Will Fail: The Reasons Why May Surprise You
Sara Goldrick-Rab, in her book Paying the Price, shows that this isn’t true. For poor students, a low grade often doesn’t reflect a lack of hard work, intelligence, or responsibility. It reflects that humans can only be pushed so far until…
Book Review: "Academic Apartheid, Waging the Adjunct War"
This book should make any adjunct laugh or cry or maybe prepare to consider other work. Perhaps it will inspire more adjuncts to take part in the growing number of unions and try to become more included in their college’s or university’s…
Univ. of South Florida Interim Vice Chancellor Interferes in Adjunct Union Vote
Olufunke Fontenot, the interim vice chancellor for academic affairs at USF St. Petersburg, alleges that the SEIU “has a controversial history of questionable practices.” This article is only available to subscribers. If you're a subscriber,…