The Ithaca College Contingent Faculty union voted at 88 percent to authorize a strike after 18 months of bargaining have failed to yield desired results. In a news…
adjunct activism
This wonderful idea for #adjunctactivism is from our friends at A is for Adjunct. In keeping with this season of tricks and treats, let’s take a look at…
Rutgers University’s nearly 1,000 part-time lecturers have approved a new four-year contract with the university. The Rutgers Council of the American Association of University Professors, which represents…
by P.D. Lesko IN NOVEMBER OF 2001, a San Francisco part-time faculty activist, Margaret Quan, sent me an e-mail. She wrote that during the previous month she’d…
HARPER COLLEGE’S NEARLY 500 part-time faculty members will hold an organizational vote in March, with two unions vying to represent them. The part-time faculty members are being…
by Christopher Cumo Science may be remarkable not for Superstring Theory or gene splicing but for the obliviousness of academics in the sciences to the rise of…
by D. J. Brasket AFTER MORE THAN two years of struggle, part-time faculty instructors at Allan Hancock College, in California, won union representation by an overwhelming majority. Of…
