This Week in Adjunct News
Friday, September 4, 2015
#UAPmembers & AFT in the news
Unions Still Matter
Randi Weingarten
Newsmax, 9/4/15
“AFT members dedicate themselves every day to improving the lives of those they serve. We are a union that believes in creating a better future for ourselves, our families and our communities, which is why we champion fairness, democracy and economic opportunity. So on this Labor Day, thank you, sisters and brothers, for who you are, for having each other’s back and for having the community’s best interests at heart. We are our union.”
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#Adjuncts
How to Be an Adjunct (and Also a Cliché)
Marlana Eck
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 9/1/15
“Work at one college, then another. Both of the department heads’ names are Bob, which seems dystopian. It is. Years later the Bobs still haunt your sleeping and waking dreams.”
“I Wanted to Give Them Something to Hide Behind”
Rebecca Schuman
Slate, 9/4/15
“[Adjuncts] might not have much disposable income, but I did think it was a community that could stand some more visibility and respect. I wanted to provide them with content that reflects the realities of their lives, products that serve their needs, and a way of forming a kind of community.”
#HigherEd
Minimum Wage Work Alone Won’t Get You Through College
Sandhya Kambhampati and Meredith Myers
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 8/28/15
“That shows how difficult the math behind college accessibility can be — and why financial aid is such a difference-maker. … $7.25 minimum wage in Pennsylvania; $7250 yearly earnings; $17,502 average in-state tuition and fees for one year at Pennsylvania State University at University Park; 2.4 years of work to pay for year’s tuition and fees”
Protesters Call NYU “Cutting Edge Of Everything That’s Wrong” In Higher Ed
Molly Hensley-Clancy
Buzzfeed, 9/1/15
“Tuesday’s protest was the first time students and faculty from the three universities have banded together. All three schools are united, protesters argued today, by a pattern of fiscal schemes — bad investments, expensive construction projects, administrative bloat, and weak financial aid — that have indebted students and harmed the universities. Organizers called it a ‘protest against the corporate university.'”
The White House Just Released an Anti-Rape Video That Every College Student Needs to See
Elizabeth Plank
Mic.com, 9/1/15
“This latest video comes at an important time. Classes haven’t yet started, but examples of rape culture are already easy to spot. Just last week, the Sigma Nu live fraternity chapter at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, came under fire for hanging disturbing banners celebrating an unabashedly predatory approach to women outside their fraternity house. Unfortunately, such actions are part of a larger trend of fraternities spreading rape culture.”
#1u
In a bankrupt Pa. school district, teachers plan to work for free
Lyndsey Layton
Washington Post, 8/28/15
“‘The thought of it is very scary,’ said John Shelton, 60, dean of students at the district’s only middle school and a 23-year employee. ‘It’s mind-boggling because there’s truly uncertainty. But we are all in agreement that we will come to work, so that the children can get an education.'”
Al Jazeera America Digital Journalists Move To Unionize
Michael Calderone
The Huffington Post, 9/3/15
“In a mission statement released Thursday, employees said they ‘want to work with Al Jazeera management in a spirit of honesty, integrity and transparency — both to produce the news and to improve the workplace in which we produce it.’ A majority of employees have asked management to voluntarily recognize the union, but have not yet taken a formal vote.”
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