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Will Northern Michigan University Adjuncts Join the AAUP?

by Shaina James The Michigan Employment Relations Commission (MERC) will send out ballots to qualifying adjuncts to vote on gaining union representation on Monday, October 3, 2011. One hundred adjuncts are qualified to vote in the election. In order to win representation, a majority of...

Having So Many Contingent Faculty Diminishes the Overall Quality of Teaching and Learning

Before you huff and puff at me, I want to say that it the title of this piece comes from the Executive Director of the Modern Language Association, Rosemary Feal,.

Same Old Same Old in The Nation

By now, mainstream media outlets have published hundreds, if not thousands of pieces about the plight of part-time faculty. On March 31st, The Nation joined the fray with a piece.

I Couldn't Have Said it Better Myself

You know how I hate just linking to someone else's writing. It's, well, so unoriginal. However, in today's edition of InsideHigherEd.com, Greg Zobel has an essay titled "The Adjuncts' Mandate." Zobel writes: "To generate change, adjuncts need to alter one basic condition. Adjuncts need to...

Why Lyyke de la Cour Earns $14,000 per Course

NYSUT, an AFT/NEA affiliate, organized the 1,000 part-time faculty at Pace University in 2004. I wrote about Pace's adjunct faculty union and its trials and tribulations here. The bottom line.

Cincinnati PTers Glad to See the Back of Nancy Zimpher

In the February 3rd edition of The New York Times, I read that Dr. Nancy Zimpher, president of the University of Cincinnati since 2003, is heading out east to head the.

Let’s Talk Turkey (After Thanksgiving)

The AFT recently came out with a new study that concludes part-time faculty are teaching a majority of the courses offered at public colleges and universities in the U.S. I suppose the surprise, then, has to do with the use of part-time faculty at 4-year...