Sandra Schroeder is feeling misunderstood. I wrote about her in an earlier post. More specifically, I wrote about her testimony in front of legislators in Washington State in support of the AFT's FACE initiative. Yesterday, adjunct activist Keith Holler got the treatment from AFT's Craig...
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By P.D. Lesko Over the course of the past three years, adjunct and part-time faculty have been systematically scape-goated for any number of problems plaguing the Academy. Students dropping out.
Surf the net to the web pages of part-time faculty unions affiliated with any of the Big Three labor unions and look at the posted budgets. Hell, surf on over.
One frequently reads in the newspaper and magazine articles published about part-time faculty these days (many of which are authored by tenured or tenure-line faculty) that a major problem with the use of part-time faculty is their lack of commitment to the institutions at which...
Before you huff and puff at me, I want to say that it the title of this piece comes from the Executive Director of the Modern Language Association, Rosemary Feal,.
First, President Obama announces to the world that he's in favor of merit pay for teachers. If you listened hard enough, you could almost hear the audible gasps from Randi.
By nature I am somewhat competitive. Let's just say that if your token lands on Boardwalk and I have a hotel there, you're not getting a break in the rent, Sweetie. So don't even ask. I think we can all agree that there are just...
You know how I hate just linking to someone else's writing. It's, well, so unoriginal. However, in today's edition of InsideHigherEd.com, Greg Zobel has an essay titled "The Adjuncts' Mandate.".
The AFT recently came out with a new study that concludes part-time faculty are teaching a majority of the courses offered at public colleges and universities in the U.S. I.
In my last entry, I mentioned the common practice of higher education union affiliates negotiating equal percentage raises for both full-time and part-time faculty. As if on cue, AFT Local 2067, representing 345 full-time and part-time faculty at the Community College of Allegheny County, proudly...