adjunct faculty

Hundreds of Adjuncts at the Parsons School of Design Protest Changes to Their Health Care Coverage

Changes in the university’s healthcare plan have largely affected workers at Parsons School of Design, where part-time faculty make up at least 85% of the teaching staff. by Valentina Di Liscia More than 600 part-time faculty at the New School in New York City have...

The Not-So-Free Speech Argument Against Teaching Law as an Adjunct

by Eugene Volokh Over the years, many successful lawyers have asked me how they might get an adjunct teaching job—a part-time job teaching one specialty class in a subject they.

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.

It’s Time for Colleges to Pay Reparations to Adjuncts for Systemic Discrimination in the Form of Massive Wage Theft

by P.D. Lesko In 2016, the U.S. EEOC recognized for the first time, in conciliating a wage theft case, that wage theft can represent discrimination based on race, sex or religion. In a 2019 essay published in the Seattle Times, Toni Van Pelt, president of the...

COVID-19 Has Transformed University Teaching – Here’s What We Should Stick With

by Paul Cowell COVID-19 has been extraordinarily challenging for universities and students, and the disruption will likely persist beyond the rollout of a vaccine. The demands on academic staff and.

The “Ad-Junct” Life–Working Toward Contentment

by Sunny Knable, Ph.D. Ad– the prefix meaning “to or toward.” Junct – the root word meaning “to join, meet or link.” Adjunct — the precarious purgatory in which Ph.D.’s linger until they become.

Job Loss in Higher Ed.—Good News for Adjuncts?

by P.D. Lesko In total, colleges and universities across the U.S. employ close to five million people. Data from the U.S. Department of Labor show that, to date, 650,000 people employed within higher education have lost their jobs. To be sure, adjunct faculty have seen...

CUNY’s Adjunct Faculty Should Have the Same Job Protections as New York’s Fast-Food Workers

by Ruth Wangerin and Marc Kagan There’s an unwarranted assumption that workers with college degrees are at the top of the heap in terms of not only earnings but also rights.

Should Adjuncts Be Paid a Kill Fee When Classes are Canceled? One College Trustee Says No and Derails Contract

Eight months into negotiations, St. Petersburg College (SPC) reached an agreement with the newly-formed union representing adjunct faculty, resulting in a three-year contract with sections that addressed several of the educators’ concerns..

Tips for New(ish) Online Faculty

by Andrew Vanden Heuvel Colleges and universities around the world have done away with face-to-face classes to slow the spread of coronavirus. At nearly every institution of higher education, faculty are being asked to prepare for the possibility of teaching courses online. As an experienced...

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