This Week in Adjunct News
Thursday, July 2, 2015
We’re posting this week’s news digest early because of the 4th of July holiday. Enjoy your weekend, and we’ll see you back next Friday!
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Justin Miller
The American Prospect, Summer 2015
The American Prospect, Summer 2015
“In Philadelphia higher education, the union is attempting to organize a high density of contingents. It still remains invested in the power of the wall-to-wall unit, but in metro areas with a number of higher education institutions, where contingents often work at multiple schools, the metro organizing strategy just makes more sense.”
#Adjuncts
Cathy Sandeen
Quartz, 7/1/15
“As we continue to evolve, how do we ensure that academic freedom remains alive and well for all faculty, regardless of whether they are headed for tenure or performing the traditional role of faculty inside and outside of the classroom?”
#HigherEd
Alexis Goldstein
Al-Jazeera America, 6/26/15
“For decades, for-profit colleges have run an outrageously profitable scam: They have devoured more than a quarter of all federal student loan money and used it to lure first-generation college students into career training programs that lead to few, if any, real prospects. These schools often spend more money on marketing than on instruction.”
David Masciotra
Salon, 6/28/15
“As the managerial class grows, in size and salary, so does the full time faculty registry shrink. Use of part time instructors has soared to stratospheric heights at NYU.”
Ella Nilsen
Concord Monitor, 6/28/15
“What they want to do, it would appear to me is mimic what they’re doing at Southern New Hampshire University, where they have an army of adjuncts . . . in an online environment. “
Reclaim Higher Ed blog, 6/29/15
“But in this kind of financial crucible, the surprise is that the temptation to cheat does not overwhelm more people. We do not condone cheating but to seek to draw attention to an academic labor system that puts people’s financial lives at risk.”
Virginia Myers
AFT On Campus, Summer 2015
“Welcome to University Inc. On campuses originally designed as havens for learning, the pursuit of knowledge and the exploration of higher truth, the air is now thick with corporate influence and its companion, a thirst for profit.”
#1u
Lydia DePillis
New York Times, 6/26/15
“No federal law currently prevents employers from discriminating against people on the basis of sexual orientation. So while gay, lesbian and bisexual people may have equal rights in love, they’re still far from equal at work.”
Brian Mahoney
Politico, 6/30/15
“An adverse ruling in Friedrichs could in effect require public unions to operate in all 50 states as they do in 25 so-called right-to-work states that forbid unions from collecting dues or their equivalent from non-members, even as those unions bargain collectively for members and non-members alike.”
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