At Duke U Adjuncts Ratify New Contract
by Ray Gronberg Adjunct faculty in three units at Duke University voted unanimously to ratify the contract their new union negotiated with the school, union leaders said. An election in March 2016 gave the SEIU authority to bargain on…
State College Adjunct Faculty in New Jersey Rally for New Contract
by Tom Nobile More than 10,000 employees at nine state colleges and universities have been working without a contract since July 2015. Staff and students at Ramapo College and Montclair State University held New Orleans’-style funeral…
Robin West Smith Wins Outstanding Adjunct Award at MCCC
by James Quick “Total shock” were the first words out of Robin West Smith’s mouth when asked about winning the Outstanding Adjunct Faculty Award. The professor of Sociology cannot believe she was the recipient of the prestigious…
ABA Considers Rule Change That Would Open Door to More Adjunct-Taught Classes in Law Schools
by Karen Sloan | Law.com The American Bar Association is considering deep-sixing a rule requiring full-time faculty to teach at least half of every law school’s upper-level courses—a proposal likely to ruffle the feathers of professors who…
Vanderbilt U. Non-Tenure Track Faculty Launches Petition to Unionize
by Sam Zern After a failed compromise with the university, the petition will move to the National Labor Relations Board for a final decision In November, a group of Vanderbilt non-tenured faculty members approached Service Employees…
NLRB to Duquesne University: Recognize Your Adjunct Faculty Union
By Bill Schackner The United Steelworkers on Tuesday implored Duquesne University to stop resisting its now-organized adjunct faculty, buoyed by the latest National Labor Relations Board ruling that campus officials must recognize those…
Ithaca College Part-Time Faculty Union Wins 24 Percent Pay Hike in First Contract
by Grace Elletson The Ithaca College contingent faculty union, an affiliate of the SEIU formed in 2016, is currently celebrating a victory it has been fighting to clinch for over 17 months: a first-time contract with the college. However,…
10th Circuit Rules Profs. Decide Free-Speech Limits in College Papers
by Victoria Prieskop The 10th Circuit ruled March 28, 2017 that the University of New Mexico had the right to reject an academic paper which called a lesbian-themed film “entirely perverse in its desire and attempt to reverse the natural…
Why You Should Be Asking Your Students to Ditch Their Laptops During Class
When a laptop is being used to take notes or download class slides, it may become tempting to check email, catch up on homework for another class or see who won the game the night before.This article is only available to subscribers. If…
College Students Retain Info Better When Writing With Pen and Paper Than When Using Computers
by Ellie Bothwell Survey of students across 10 countries suggests handwriting and printed books have advantages over digital materials University students find it easier to retain information when using books and handwriting notes rather…