part-time faculty

“My adjunct teaching job wound up being a lot more than I bargained for.” by Jonita Davis My job in 2017 was to teach Composition I to new college students, showing them how to express themselves through writing. My role quickly…

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled Jan. 28 that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has no jurisdiction over the university’s adjunct faculty. According to the ruling, the NLRB does not have the authority to…

“Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.” Theodore Roosevelt by Tina Seelig This is an important reminder that teaching is all about building a relationship with your students. In fact, in today’s world,…

by Paul Thomas One of the best and most significant changes for me when I moved from high school English teaching to being a college professor was a blossoming of my life as a writer. In the spring of my first year of…

by P.D. Lesko In December 2019, AdjunctNation.com posed this question to over 7,000 social media followers: "If you had a job opportunity outside Academia, would you leave?" Of the 150 faculty who responded, a large number of them said…

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 the…

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 faculty is…

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…