part-time faculty

by P.D. Lesko The part-time faculty union election underway at Columbia College Chicago looks more like a Windy City whodunnit than anything else, and it's a whodunnit being investigated by the U.S. Department of Labor. The part-time…

CUNY’s 30,000-member staff union has ratified its contract after a lengthy contract negotiation with university officials, solidifying higher wages for both tenured faculty and adjunct professors. Members of the union, called…

Edited by Keith Hoeller,  Vanderbilt University Press, 2014, paperback. by Deborah Straw In Equality for Contingent Faculty, edited by Keith Hoeller, longtime academic labor activist John Hess is quoted as saying, “No contingent…

I’d like to pose some questions to my colleagues: have you ever been sick, had an emergency, missed your train, had a death in the family, been in a car accident, or simply needed a mental health day? Have you ever had to cancel a class,…

The contract I will vote against is likely to pass because of a consensus of indifference to changing the conversation around what is “teaching,” and fear of an unknown worse case. No doubt naively, I vote “NO,” hoping to join with others…

The abolition of the limited-term employment system at the University of Tokyo allows contract full- or part-time administration staff and (from April this year) part-time teachers to apply for, and be granted, permanent employment after…

However, considering the decrease in the number of both overall and small-sized classes in the first semester, a large number of part-time lecturers could have been fired or at least had the number of their lectures cut. The Korean…

by Jason Cole As we explore the digital transformation of education, it’s essential to keep the why of the change in mind. I recently re-read a great article on e-literate by Mike Feldstein…

by Steve Dubb Earlier this year, NPQ wrote about a group of employees at museums and art nonprofits who created an online spreadsheet to share salary information to call attention to their low wages. Now, adjunct college faculty are doing…

by P.D. Lesko A recent report challenging the membership numbers of the Professional Staff Congress in the City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) union revealed that several thousand of the union’s members, primarily agency fee…