If you've never heard of COCAL, check out this piece in Adjunct Advocate, and this site, as well. In August of this year, COCAL is holding its eighth conference. I stopped by the group's web site to have a look, and I heard the calendar...
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Still sick. Actually, I haven't been struck down by a virus like this in quite a long time, so I suppose I was overdue. I wrote my letter from the.
by P.D. Lesko The Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor (COCAL) sprang forth from the National Congress of Adjunct, Part-time, Graduate Teaching Assistants and Non-Tenure Track Faculty. The National Congress met.
by P.D. Lesko The Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor (COCAL) sprang forth from the National Congress of Adjunct, Part-time, Graduate Teaching Assistants and Non-Tenure Track Faculty. The National Congress met in Washington, D.C. in 1996. That same year, graduate student members of the Modern Language...
reviewed by Silvia Foti For those who are skeptical of any one book’s ability to help adjuncts organize to improve their working conditions in higher education, Reclaiming the Ivory Tower.
by P.D. Lesko A new study published in the Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy presents evidence that suggests the nation's higher education unions have been focusing the bulk of their respective.
by P.D. Lesko Campus Equity Week, Oct. 26-30, is here and aimed at drawing attention to the exploitation of low-wage adjunct and contingent faculty at American colleges and universities, and to the impact of colleges’ staffing decisions on students. On campuses from California to Ohio...
by P.D. Lesko AdjunctNation will have been advocating on behalf of the nation's non-tenured faculty for 21 years this September. I am pleased and proud of the work we've done,.
By P.D. Lesko We're back from a much-needed summer break. Every August, we close the office and spend time with friends and family. My family and I took a trip.
