part-time faculty equity pay

In Chicago, a Resolution Calling for Equal Pay for Adjunct Faculty Comes to the City Council Table

The 1,000-plus adjunct faculty members working in the City Colleges of Chicago are demanding a living wage, saying they currently earn about half the amount of full-time professors despite teaching up to 80% of a full-time load. Chicago aldermen introduced a resolution during a City...

Will Colorado Comm. College System Adjuncts Get the 28 Percent Pay Hike They’re Demanding?

Caprice Lawless peruses the aisles at the Sister Carmen Community Center and food bank near her home in Louisville. As she draws closer to the produce section, she sees a.

Letters to the Editor

A Tale of Gluttony and Greed in California I was so angry and frustrated after I read the May/June 2004 cover story that I could have spit nails. Millions and.

A Tale of Greed and Gluttony: The California Part-Time Faculty Equity Fund Boondoggle

by Chris Cumo and P.D. Lesko Since 2001, thanks to the Part-Time Faculty Equity Pay Law, legislators in California have, yearly, earmarked $57 million dollars in tax money to go toward pay increases for the state’s 35,740 part-time faculty. Prior to the passage of the...

Boondoggle in California

by P.D. Lesko IN NOVEMBER OF 2001, a San Francisco part-time faculty activist, Margaret Quan, sent me an e-mail. She wrote that during the previous month she’d attended a BayFac.