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Colleges Used COVID as an Excuse to Slash Staff and Faculty Jobs–While Sitting on Huge Reserve Funds

by Kerry Cardoza As COVID-19 swept across the U.S. last winter and spring, colleges and universities adapted swiftly to the situation. Though it was swift, it was not without pain: Just as quickly as professors learned to teach through a screen on Zoom, administrations slashed...

Malaysia’s Largest University Looks to Trim Jobs of 600 Part-time Lecturers After Funding Cut

by Rahimi Yunus Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) is likely to terminate its part-time lecturer program and trim its strategic plan after funding was slashed under Budget 2021 announced this month..

Washington/New York Faculty Unions Pushing “New Deal” Boondoggle That Will Cost Thousands of Part-Timers Their Jobs

by P. D. Lesko The Washington State House College and Workforce Development Committee will be hearing 2ESSB 5194 on Monday March 21, 2021. It would be a disaster for thousands.

Some People in Higher Ed Are Delighted Adjuncts are Losing Their Jobs

by P. D. Lesko For many years, I have made myself unpopular among higher education union leaders for pointing out unions blatantly unequal representation of their adjunct faculty members. When a union that represents full-time and part-time faculty bargains a contract that allows full-time faculty...

NEA Claims With Government Bailout, 153,721 Education Jobs Projected to be Lost Could be Restored

McConnell’s wait-and-see tactics put students in limbo as states grapple with reopening plans by Staci Maiers If the economic damage wrought by the coronavirus pandemic isn’t answered with immediate, additional.

To Protect the Jobs of Australian Casuals, Union Calls for Across the Board Staff Pay Cuts

by Jess Harris, Kathleen Smithers and Nerida Spina The National Tertiary Education Union this week struck an agreement with universities that no ongoing university staff member would be stood down involuntarily without.

S. Korean Legislators Passed the Higher Education Act to Help PT Lecturers—PTers Union Alleges 20K Lost Jobs

By Kim Jae-heun A part-time lecturer surnamed Jung, who teaches at a university in Seoul, says job security for part-time lecturers has worsened this year ahead of the scheduled implementation of the revised Higher Education Act in August, which is aimed at providing better working...

Colleges Need $18.9 Billion Annually to Provide “Minimally Good” FT Jobs to 263K Adjuncts. Here’s A Plan to Find the Cash.

by P.D. Lesko In 2016, researchers Jason Brennan and Phillip Magness published "Estimating the Cost of Justice for Adjuncts: A Case Study in University Business Ethics." In their article, the.

Why Wright State University PTers Should Apply for Striking FTers’ Jobs

by P.D. Lesko The full-time faculty at Wright State University went on strike on Tuesday January 22nd. Adjunct faculty employed by WSU who seek full-time teaching jobs should contact the deans.

In Connecticut Community College Merger Plan, Hundreds of Adjuncts Could Lose Jobs

“It will stop the bleeding,” Mark Ojakian, president of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities and architect of the plan, said Friday. On March 16 it will be in the hands of regional accreditors. An 82-page “Substantive Change Request,” along with more than a hundred...

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