pay parity

At Clark College, Adjuncts Will Earn 65 Percent of FT Faculty Pay Rates

by Don McIntosh After 15 months of frustrating negotiations, it took just two days of striking for about 500 community college faculty to win the best union contract they’ve ever had. Members of Clark College Association for Higher Education (CCAHE) voted 257 to 9 on...

A Helpful Contingent Faculty Compromise: Equal Pay for (75% of) Equal Work

We all know that contingent faculty members are underpaid, yet administrators rarely take seriously the arguments championing equal pay for equal work. It's time for a new approach. This article.

Arizona Community College Gives FT Faculty and Staff 1 Percent Raises—Adjuncts Get $7/Credit Hour

Central Arizona College employees will get a pay increase and tuition will increase by $3 per credit hour following Tuesday action by the college Board of Governors. The board voted.

One Man’s Mission To Bring the Gospel According to SEIU To DC Adjuncts

by Kelly McDonald In 2008, Kip Lornell wrote a piece for AdjunctNation about his seven-year effort to help his colleagues at George Washington University to unionize: It took me the same number of years (seven-and-a-half) to earn a B.S., M.A., and Ph.D. as it did...

Guest Blogging at the Chronicle of Higher Education

Just a quick entry to let folks know that I am blogging about part-time faculty at The Chronicle of Higher Education. Click here to read my February 26, 2009 entry..

“Parity” versus “Equity”: Why You Should Know the Diff, Bro

by P.D. Lesko Some people I know are under the impression that pay "parity" and pay "equity" mean the same thing. They're wrong, of course. Those two words are not.

The TKO of Washington State House Bill 5802

by Brooke Pielli Bill 5802 should have been on the fast track to passage and signing. Fifteen state senators and the American Federation of Teachers sponsored it. According to Keith Hoeller, Washington’s 7,900 part-time faculty would certainly have benefited. Hoeller, is the co-founder of the...

A Bigger Slice of the Pie

by Mike Kielkopf For the last several years David Milroy, a part-timer since 1988 at Grossmont, Southwestern and MiraCosta colleges, has been part of a determined battle for parity–“equality in.