health care

College That Claims it “Can’t Afford” Health Care for Adjuncts, Spent $1.6M per FT Faculty/Staff in 2013

by P.D. Lesko Ivy Tech Community College employs 120 full-time faculty and 500 part-time faculty. It's a common ratio at American community colleges these days and it's a ratio meant to achieve exactly one purpose: to save money. Recently, administrators at Ivy Tech alleged that...

Austin Community College Adjuncts Rally for Health Coverage

by Becky Stieber Villarreal The road to health benefits for adjuncts at Austin Community College (ACC) has been long and arduous. Since the college’s inception forty years ago, it has been plagued by its.

Combat Administrative Bloat: Require Public Colleges to Spend 80% of Revenues on Instruction

by P.D. Lesko One college president told the local newspaper that his college was lowering the number of hours per week adjunct faculty could teach from 30 to 29 for.

College Cuts Adjuncts’ Hours In Response to Affordable Health Care Act

by Mary Niederberger To Community College of Allegheny County’s president, Alex Johnson, cutting hours for some 400 temporary part-time workers to avoid providing health insurance coverage for them under the impending Affordable Health Care Act is purely a cost-saving measure at a time the college...

Union Balks At New Jersey Governor’s Proposal to Move Rutgers Adjuncts To High-Deductible Health Plan

by J. Fletcher Close to 850,000 current and retired state workers can start choosing new health care plans on October 17, 2011 — a normally routine process that this year.

Union Balks At New Jersey Governor's Proposal to Move Rutgers Adjuncts To High-Deductible Health Plan

by J. Fletcher Close to 850,000 current and retired state workers can start choosing new health care plans on October 17, 2011 — a normally routine process that this year.