Category: Must Reads!
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A hugely important step has just been taken by the EAC — an advisory committee made up of faculty, APs, and administrators from around the college. This is the main avenue for faculty members to participate in the governance process. By a large margin, the members of the EAC voted on 12/9 to adopt the…
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There is a comprehensive account of the troubles caused by reliance on academic contingent labor, this time from The Atlantic. Go to: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/higher-education-college-adjunct-professor-salary/404461/ Here is short excerpt, appealing to evidence-based educational practice, which supports our negotiating goals of better job security and inclusion in institutional initiatives for the majority teachers: So the real question is…
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by sg Here is a wonderful piece from an adjunct blog I recently found. I am pasting in the beginning of the manifesto, but invite you to go read the rest, and explore the archives! The crisis of identity for adjunct faculty takes different forms, at different times, in different places, but is an undercurrent…
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A new perspective on an old issue: http://www.theolympian.com/2015/05/06/3710721_part-time-faculty-pay-is-a-form.html?rh=1
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https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/05/06/study-suggests-most-part-time-faculty-members-want-respect-even-more-full-time-work
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This past Wednesday, February 25, 2015 was National Adjunct Walkout Day, a day for contingent faculty across the country to walk out of class to increase awareness of the plight of part-time college instructors across the country. PCCFFAP asked its members not to walk out; instead we and sympathetic PCC employees wore buttons and stickers…
Michele Marden for FFAP Executive VP 