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by Keith Hoeller “We Now Have the Worst Unemployment Rate Since the Great Depression,” read Slate’s headline. The 20.5 million jobs lost in April and the nearly 15% unemployment rate “may understate the actual extent of joblessness,” writes…

by Bob Markin Amid national health and economic crises and during nationwide demonstrations against racial injustice, Rutgers University is choosing to fire its most vulnerable campus workers, a coalition of 19 campus unions said in a…

by Christopher Doucet The unprecedented number of Americans suddenly out of work due to the COVID-19 pandemic has imperiled the American economy, revealed the economic precariousness that more than half of American families live under and…

City University of New York faculty members are so distraught over layoffs that they’re considering withholding spring semester grades. John Jay College’s provost announced last week he planned to eliminate 437 adjunct positions, almost 40…

by Gates Bryant A Tyton Partners survey of parents of current and would be college students reveals a deep concern about current distance learning measures, pointing to a potentially meaningful risk to tuition revenue in the 2020-2021…

Kirkwood Community College on Friday finalized an agreement to pay $25,000 to an adjunct professor who was fired for a Facebook post with a controversial political statement. The move allowed the college to avoid a First Amendment lawsuit.…

by Adam Raimond Cynthia Vacca Davis has taught as an adjunct writing instructor in Virginia for 11 years. When asked whether she intended to apply for unemployment this summer she said, “I do plan to apply, but I have no idea how it will…

UNT prof wrote microaggression fliers were ‘garbage’ and was not rehired. Now he’s suing. by Emerson Claridge After teaching his linear algebra class on an evening in late November, Nathaniel Hiers returned to a University of North Texas…

by P.D. Lesko College administrators are re-calculating their six-, seven-, eight-, nine- and ten-figure budgets, and battening down the golden hatches on their mega-yachts. There are rumblings and evidence of a system-wide hiring…

by Raechel Huizinga Former adjunct English Professor Andrew Bretz, who passed away on Aug. 21, 2018 at the age of 42, was under investigation for sexual harassment by the University in the months leading up to his death.  In a series of…