After the First Contract
By Colleen Flaherty NEW YORK – How can adjunct unions keep their members engaged after their first contracts have…
Take Action: Call on UCC for a fair contract for Adjunct Faculty
Union County College Adjunct Faculty Are Working Without a Contract To Do Their Part To Put UCC Students First……
Colleges Are Buying Stuff They Can’t Afford and Making Students Pay For It
By Michelle Chen With tuition costs more than doubling over the past generation, and student debt now exceeding $1…
Student Debt Grows Faster at Universities With Highest-Paid Leaders, Study Finds
By Tamar Lewin At the 25 public universities with the highest-paid presidents, both student debt and the use of…
Union Efforts on Behalf of Adjuncts Meet Resistance Within Faculties’ Ranks
By Peter Schmidt As part-time instructors at colleges seek to improve their working conditions through unionization, they often find…
IRS Suggests ‘Reasonable’ Ways of Calculating Adjuncts’ Hours
By Audrey Williams June The Internal Revenue Service has issued final rules on how colleges should calculate adjuncts’ workloads…
A union push to organize Philly-area college adjuncts
Susan Snyder, Inquirer Staff Writer Jennie Shanker committed to teaching two classes in sculpture at a Philadelphia college for…
Take action: Support Unemployment Insurance for Adjuncts
Please [click here] to write to legislative leaders in the New Jersey State Assembly and Senate to request they…
Video: United Adjunct Faculty discuss ‘for-profit’ schools
Oct. 26 United Adjunct Faculty of New Jersey meeting featuring one-man show of former for-profit school “counselor.”
An Adjunct Tragedy
By Rick Perlstein […] I’m still collecting adjuncts’ stories. Here is one I’ve recently received from a psychology teacher…
Opinion: No ‘skin’ in this game
By Alexa Offenhauer, The Record. Alexa Offenhauer is an adjunct English instructor at Raritan Valley Community College in Branchburg…
Colleges Are Slashing Adjuncts’ Hours to Skirt New Rules on Health-Insurance Eligibility
By Sydni Dunn Allison G. Armentrout, an adjunct instructor at Stark State College, doesn’t get paid by the hour….
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