In September, there were pieces in The Chronicle (http://chronicle.com/article/An-Activist-Adjunct-Shoulde/48348/) and on InsideHigherEd.com (http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2009/09/10/maisto) about the New Faculty Majority. September, it seems, is the time of year when…
New Faculty Majority
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by TAA Staff EACH MONDAY MORNING Terri Maue drives a half an hour to teach her first class at 8:30 a.m. Her day doesn’t end until she…
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Adjuncts at YSU teach 51 percent of the college's credit hours, yet in 2016 300 full-time faculty collected 75 percent of the $40.5 million the college allocated…
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by P.D. Lesko By 2021, adjunct faculty teaching three-credit courses at Barnard will be paid $10,000 per course. The Barnard Contingent Faculty Union (BCF)-UAW Local 2110 was…
![New Study Reveals AFT, NEA and AAUP Organizing Primarily FT Faculty Not PTers img](https://www.adjunctnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/mixed_messages-472x295.jpg)
Compare this to the AFT's organizing record prior its 2006 launch of a state-by-state legislative push to increase the number of full-time faculty. Of the 44 faculty…
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by P.D. Lesko In December 2015, full-time economics professor Howard Bunsis, chair of the American Association of University Professors' Bargaining Congress, told Truthout that the reduction in tenure-track…
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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…
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by Nick Anderson New rules for the Affordable Care Act spell out for the first time a federal method to define the workload of part-time college instructors, but…
![Survey Reveals Colleges’ Plans Regarding Cuts To Adjunct Hours in Response to Obamacare img](https://www.adjunctnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/obamacare8-472x295.jpg)
by Tyler Kingkade Officials at Joliet Junior College, Palm Beach State College, Daytona State College, Bergen Community College and Kean University have decided to limit the hours/courses…
![1,464 PT Faculty Jobs On the Line At City College of San Francisco Thanks To Accreditation Mess img](https://www.adjunctnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/job-loss-472x295.jpg)
by P.D. Lesko At the City College of San Francisco, there are more than 3,000 jobs on the line thanks to the decision of the accrediting agency…