part-time faculty

In Indian State of Hyderabad, Faculty Ask Court to Force Colleges to Recognize PT Teaching Experience When Hiring for FT Positions

Stating that it would soon decide whether the experience of a part-time lecturer would count for the purpose of filling principal posts at Gurukul residential schools and colleges in the state, the high court on Monday concluded its hearing in the matter and reserved its judgment. A...

Durbin, Duckworth, Hirono, Booker Introduce Bill To Expand Public Service Loan Forgiveness To Adjunct Faculty

U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), and U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), and Cory Booker (D-NJ) today introduced the Adjunct Faculty Loan Fairness Act to allow part-time faculty.

Washington Part-Time Faculty Association Urges Veto of Section 5 of 2ESSB 5194

by Keith Hoeller For nearly a decade, the American Federation of Teachers and the Washington Education Association have sought to replace the part-time faculty they represent with the full-time faculty.

Hundreds of Adjuncts at the Parsons School of Design Protest Changes to Their Health Care Coverage

Changes in the university’s healthcare plan have largely affected workers at Parsons School of Design, where part-time faculty make up at least 85% of the teaching staff. by Valentina Di Liscia More than 600 part-time faculty at the New School in New York City have...

The Not-So-Free Speech Argument Against Teaching Law as an Adjunct

by Eugene Volokh Over the years, many successful lawyers have asked me how they might get an adjunct teaching job—a part-time job teaching one specialty class in a subject they.

Washington/New York Faculty Unions Pushing “New Deal” Boondoggle That Will Cost Thousands of Part-Timers Their Jobs

by P. D. Lesko The Washington State House College and Workforce Development Committee will be hearing 2ESSB 5194 on Monday March 21, 2021. It would be a disaster for thousands.

It’s Time for Colleges to Pay Reparations to Adjuncts for Systemic Discrimination in the Form of Massive Wage Theft

by P.D. Lesko In 2016, the U.S. EEOC recognized for the first time, in conciliating a wage theft case, that wage theft can represent discrimination based on race, sex or religion. In a 2019 essay published in the Seattle Times, Toni Van Pelt, president of the...

COVID-19 Has Transformed University Teaching – Here’s What We Should Stick With

by Paul Cowell COVID-19 has been extraordinarily challenging for universities and students, and the disruption will likely persist beyond the rollout of a vaccine. The demands on academic staff and.

The “Ad-Junct” Life–Working Toward Contentment

by Sunny Knable, Ph.D. Ad– the prefix meaning “to or toward.” Junct – the root word meaning “to join, meet or link.” Adjunct — the precarious purgatory in which Ph.D.’s linger until they become.

Job Loss in Higher Ed.—Good News for Adjuncts?

by P.D. Lesko In total, colleges and universities across the U.S. employ close to five million people. Data from the U.S. Department of Labor show that, to date, 650,000 people employed within higher education have lost their jobs. To be sure, adjunct faculty have seen...

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