Monday, January 1, 2007
2019
- Silo Thinking and the Runaway Train on Retiree Health Care (UCLAFA 6/25/19)
- Retiree Healthcare Benefits Are a Target for Cost Cutting Once Again at UCOP (UCDFA 6/19)
- More on the Runaway Retiree Health Care Train (UCLAFA 6/14/19)
- UCLA Emeriti Assn. Statement to Regents on Proposed Privatization of Retiree Health (UCLAFA 6/11/19)
- Support for UC Workers (Signature Collection 6/19)
- Runaway Train on Retiree Health Care (UCLAFA 6/7/19)
- “Worker Power Is a Threat to the Way the University Is Run” (Jacobin 6/4/19)
- Suit Targets Changes to UA Tenure Policy (Arkansas Online 6/1/19)
- 2021 - and maybe 2020 - Health Care Changes - Part 2 (UCLAFA 5/25/19)
- 2021 Health Care Changes (UCLAFA 5/11/19)
- UC Strike News (UCLAFA 3/9/19)
- UC Librarians Continue Negotiating With UCOP Over Contracts (Daily Bruin 2/3/19)
- Wright State Professors Strike Over Board-Imposed Contract They Say Would Gut Faculty Rights and Compensation (IHE 1/23/19)
2018
- The Livermore Case on Retiree Health Entitlements (UCLAFA 12/27/18)
- DePauw Faculty Split on No-Confidence Vote in President (IHE 11/21/18)
- Do Unions Help Adjuncts? (CHE 6/3/18)
- PSC tells Albany: ‘$7K for adjuncts!’ (Portside 5/14/18)
- Coverage of UC Workers May 7-9 Strike (Cloudminder 5/9/18)
- The Light at the End of the Retiree Health Care Tunnel May Be a Train (UCLAFA 4/16/18)
- Demands Against the Long Crisis of the University (Critical Legal Thinking 2/14/18)
2017
- Work Group to be Formed to Study, Make Recommendations About Health Benefits for Retirees (UCnet 10/11/17)
- Dropping the Floor at Least Delayed (UCLAFA 10/7/17)
- CFA, CSU Reach Tentative Agreement on Two-Year Contract Extension (Academe Blog 9/26/17)
- Despite Removal of 70% Retiree Health Care Floor From July Regents' Agenda, Issue Isn't Dead (UCLAFA 7/19/17)
- Senate Response to Proposed Changes in Retiree Health Care (UC Academic Senate 7/6/17)
- Stealth Regents Item (UCLAFA 7/2/17)
- Organizing in the University (Viewpoint Magazine 6/1/17)
- In Higher Ed, Adjuncts May Have Most to Lose if Obamacare Is Repealed (CHE 5/5/17)
- Thousands Of UC Workers Go On Strike For Fair Wages, Pensions (Huff Po 1/10/17)
2016
- Union Victory for Student Employees! (Academe Blog 8/23/16)
- Student Assistants Covered by the NLRA (NLRB 8/23/16)
- Employees Sue Four More Universities Over Retirement Plan Fees (NYT 8/11/16)
- M.I.T., N.Y.U. and Yale Are Sued Over Retirement Plan Fees (NYT 8/9/16)
2015
- Task Force Charged With Making a Silk Purse Out Of You-Know-What (UCLAFA 8/8/15)
- Lecturers Deserve Better Benefits, Greater Job Security (Daily Cal 6/8/15)
- Too Tier-full? (UCLAFA 2/3/15)
- Adjuncts Stall U. of Memphis Attempt to Privatize Their Social Security (IHE 1/13/15)
- New Congress Seeks to Redefine Full-Time Work in Health Law, Which Colleges Support, Adjuncts Don't (IHE 1/8/15)
- Blue Shield vs. Sutter Health Dispute To Force Thousands To Switch Doctors (Napa Valley Patch 1/6/15)
2014
- Governor to Target Retiree Health Care (UCLAFA 12/17/14)
- How Did These Graduate Students Improve Their Working Conditions? They Went on Strike! (The Nation 12/12/14)
- UC Health Care: What's Coming in 2015 (Christopher Newfield 11/6/14)
- UCLA vs. Kaiser (UCLAFA 9/17/14)
- 300 Protest Take-Backs in UMass Amherst Contracts (MTA 9/14)
- UC Announces Changes to Retiree Health Benefits Eligibility Rules (Daily Cal 5/28/14)
- UC Officials Need to Adhere to Labor Contract (Daily Cal 4/15/14)
- Further Troubles with UC Care (Judith Paltin 4/10/14)
- Why Solidarity is Important, or, An Open Letter to UC Faculty (Earl Perez-Foust 3/25/14)
- UC Care Stories (Michael Meranze 3/14/14)
- When Will UC Stop Downgrading Faculty Salaries and Benefits? (Christopher Newfield 3/7/14)
- Elizabeth Warren vs. The Neoliberals: The Battle Over Americans’ Retirement Security (Salon 2/12/14)
- Colorado Lawmakers Take Up Sweeping Overhaul of Adjunct Working Conditions (CHE 2/4/14)
2013
- Union Logic of The Insurance Changes: The Case of Retiree Healthcare (Christopher Newfield 12/15/13)
- Obamacare and UC Care (Christopher Newfield 12/9/13)
- UCSB Health Care Update: The Rest of Tier 1 is Yet to Come (Christopher Newfield 11/23/13)
- UCR Faculty Association Letter to Colleagues on UC Care and Riverside (Hint: It is a Lot Like Santa Barbara) (Remaking 11/17/13)
- UCSB FA Open Letter to President Napolitano on UCOP and the Health Care Fiasco (Remaking 11/17/13)
- Come See The Benefits Show! (Christopher Newfield 11/7/13)
- Wellness Plans, Retirement and Adjunct Health Care: A Survey of Chief HR Officers (IHE 10/25/13)
- More on UC Care (Berkeley Anonymous 10/15/13)
- Adjunct Inequities (IHE 10/15/13)
- UC (Doesn’t) Care (Santa Barbara Independent 10/14/13)
- Some Further Questions About UC Care (Michael Meranze 10/12/13)
- Let’s Pop the Bubble Surrounding Part-Time Faculty (CHE 10/11/13)
- Changes in U. of California's Medical Plans Worry Some Employees (CHE 10/10/13)
- The Plot Thickens on UC Care in Santa Barbara (Christopher Newfield 10/10/13)
- Health Care Trouble and a Simple Solution (Christopher Newfield 10/9/13)
- UC Imposes Pension Terms on Employees; Union Protests (LAT 9/25/13)
- Fixing the UC Retirement System Time Bomb (UCBFA 8/12/13)
- Union Raises for Adjuncts (IHE 7/26/13)
- Will UCOP's Latest Efficiency Tax Employees? (Christopher Newfield 6/23/13)
Posted by
Alysse
2016
- Academic Freedom 2.0 (The Good Enough Professor 4/15/16)
2015
- U. of Illinois Will Pay Salaita $600,000 to Settle Lawsuits (CHE 11/12/15)
- Sign the Statement of Academics on the Settlement of Professor Steven Salaita’s Lawsuit Against the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (11/11/15)
- Illinois Reaches Tentative Settlement With Salaita (IHE 11/10/15)
- Another Lesson from Illinois: Beware Tenured Radicals (Academe Blog 9/18/15)
- And Another One’s Gone: U of Illinois Provost Resigns (Academe Blog 8/24/15)
- 41 Executive Officers at UIUC Call for the Reinstatement of Steven Salaita (Academe Blog 8/23/15)
- U of Illinois Board Rejects $400,000 Deal With Outgoing Chancellor (IHE 8/13/15)
- A Blow for Academic Freedom In a 1st Amendment Case -- One Year Late (LAT 8/12/15)
- What's Next? (The Good Enough Professor 8/10/15)
- The Revelations in Phyllis Wise’s Emails (Academe Blog 8/10/15)
- U of Illinois: Officials Broke Email Rules to Hide Content (Michael Tarm and Tammy Webber, Chron 8/7/15)
- Chancellor of U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Resigns (Scott Jaschik, IHE 8/7/15)
- Judge Rejects Move by U of Illinois to Dismiss Salaita Lawsuit (Colleen Flaherty, IHE 8/7/15)
- U. of Illinois Chancellor, Who Presided Over Salaita Affair, Will Step Down (Andy Thomason, CHE 8/6/15)
- Nearly a Year Later, Fallout From Salaita Case Lingers on Campuses (CHE 7/6/15)
- AAUP Censures University of Illinois and 3 Other Institutions (Academe Blog 6/13/15)
- Emails Indicate Univ. of Illinois Concealing Information About Salaita Firing (ei 6/1/15)
- Boston U. distances itself from new professor's comments about white male students (IHE 5/12/15)
- AAUP Slams U of Illinois Handling of Steven Salaita Case (IHE 4/28/15)
2014
- Support Steven Salaita - Make a Donation (9/14)
- U. of Illinois Faculty Panel Issues Mixed Report on Aborted Hiring of Steven Salaita (IHE 12/24/14)
- UIUC Report Condemns Dismissal of Steven Salaita (The Academe Blog 12/23/14)
- Open Letter on the Salaita Case from University of Illinois Department Heads (Academe Blog 12/2/14)
- Essay Sees a Double Standard in How U. of Illinois Responds to Controversial Professors (IHE 10/2/14)
- Kennedy: We did the right thing (News- Gazette 9/19/14)
- The Salaita Case and the Big Money Takeover of State Universities (LAT 9/15/14)
- Six Statements on Salaita in Search of a Thesis (Corey Robin 9/12/14)
- What’s Next in the Steven Salaita Dispute? (CHE 9/12/14)
- U. Illinois Board Votes 'No' on Salaita Appointment (IHE 9/12/14)
- Updated: UI Trustees Reject Salaita (News-Gazette 9/11/14)
- The Personnel is Political (Corey Robin 9/11/14)
- An Open Letter Supporting Salaita’s Dismissal, and a Critique (The Academe Blog 9/11/14)
- U. of Illinois Board’s Denial of Job to Salaita Is Unlikely to Quell Controversy (CHE 9/11/14)
- Not Too Refined to Say This, Anyway. (The Good Enough Professor 9/11/14)
- Salaita Speaks Publicly for the First Time Since Firing: ‘I am here to reaffirm my commitment to teaching and to a position with the American Indian Studies program at UIUC’ (Mondoweiss 9/9/14)
- Who is Steven Salaita? (News-Gazette 9/7/14)
- Illinois Chancellor Sees Errors in Process, Not Outcome (IHE 9/5/14)
- University of Illinois Jewish Community Letter in Support of our Professor Steven Salaita (UIUC 9/3/14)
- Different Reports on Whether There will be a Board Vote (Academe Blog 9/1/14)
- Open Letter from the Executive Committee of the ACLA to Chancellor Phyllis Wise, University of Illinois (9/14)
- University’s Rescinding of Job Offer Prompts an Outcry (NYT 8/31/14)
- Letter of Concern to University of Illinois Chancellor Regarding Salaita Case (2014) (American Historical Assoc 8/31/14)
- Natalie Zemon Davis “Gets” Twitter, Supports Steven Salaita (CHE 8/29/14)
- GWS students organize to Support Salaita (U of Illinois 8/28/14)
- Illinois’s Philosophy Dept. Declares No Confidence in University Leaders (CHE 8/28/14)
- Philosophy Department Weighs In: No Confidence (News-Gazette 8/28/14)
- Why the ‘Unhiring’ of Steven Salaita Is a Threat to Academic Freedom (The Nation 8/27/14)
- VIDEO: Protesters support Steven Salaita (News-Gazette 8/26/14)
- Natalie Zemon Davis in support of Steven Salaita and the Department of American Indian and Indigenous Studies (8/26/14)
- Is Criticizing Israel Worse than Murder at The University of Illinois? (Electronic Intifada 8/25/14)
- AIS Faculty Cast a Vote of No Confidence in Chancellor Wise (U of Illinois AIS 8/24/14)
- University of Illinois Repeals the First Amendment for Its Faculty (Huff Po 8/23/14)
- U. of Illinois Officials Defend Decision to Deny Job to Scholar; Documents Show Lobbying Against Him (IHE 8/25/14)
- Wise Explains Salaita Decision, Gets Support from Trustees (The News-Gazette 8/23/14)
- The Latest on the Salaita Case at the University of Illinois (Michael Meranze 8/23/14)
- On the Salaita Decision (Easily Distracted 8/22/14)
- University of Illinois Board of Trustees Statement on Salaita Case (The Academe Blog 8/22/14)
- Chancellor Phyllis Wise Explains the Firing of Steven Salaita (The Academe Blog 8/22/14)
- The Principles on Which We Stand (Illinois Office of the Chancellor 8/22/14)
- Can the Board of Trustees Really Revoke My Job Offer? (Syndi Dunn 8/21/14)
- Salaita’s Stellar Teaching Record Exposes Political Motivation Behind his Firing (Mondoweiss 8/20/14)
- Illinois AAUP Defends Salaita's Academic Freedom (News-Gazette 8/18/14)
- Letter to Chancellor Phyllis Wise about the Steven Salaita Case #2 (Michael Rothberg 8/17/14)
- Free Speech and Faculty Appointments/Age Bias in Academe (IHE 8/15/14)
- Is US Academic Freedom a Casualty of the Israeli-Palestinian Debate? (LAT 8/11/14)
- Federal Judge: NCAA Violates Antitrust Law (IHE 8/11/14)
- Essay defends University of Illinois decision not to hire Steven Salaita (IHE 8/8/14)
- Fighting the Twitter Police (IHE 8/8/14)
- Denial of Job to Harsh Critic of Israel Divides Advocates of Academic Freedom (CHE 8/7/14)
- Return of the blacklist? Cowardice and censorship at the University of Illinois (Salon 8/7/14)
- U. of Illinois Apparently Revokes Job Offer to Controversial Scholar (IHE 8/6/14)
- Letter to Chancellor Phyllis Wise about the Steven Salaita Case (Michael Rothberg 8/6/14)
- ACTA Insists Boards Take a Greater Role in University and College Affairs (ACTA 8/14)
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Posted by
Alysse
2015
- To Fix California's Colleges, Reform Prop. 13 by Taxing Corporations More (LAT 11/2/15)
- UC Students, Administrators Come to Preliminary Agreement on Tuition Hike Policy (Daily Cal 10/7/15)
- UC Law Students Celebrate Exemption from Supplemental Fee Increases (LAT 5/25/15)
- Ara Shirinian: California Budget Revision would Compromise Quality of UC Education (Daily Bruin 5/19/15)
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Budget Deal (Changing Universities 5/18/15)
- More Than Money at Stake in University of California Budget Negotiations (Sac Bee 3/23/15)
- Jerry Brown, Janet Napolitano Stand their Ground on UC Tuition (SF Gate 3/19/15)
- UC President Napolitano Caught on video Calling Student Protest ‘Crap’ (SF Gate 3/18/15)
- Napolitano: "This Tuition Increase Won't Even Affect Them" - and her pivot on Title IX (Cloudminder 3/14/15)
- University of California plans to Limit Resident Enrollment (SacBee 3/3/15)
- UC Falsely Describes Tuition Plan as "Robin Hood" Scheme (Vernon, DailyCal 3/3/15)
- Budget Standoff Leaves California College Hopefuls in Limbo (ABC 3/2/15)
- Voters Strongly Oppose UC Tuition Hike, Poll Finds (LAT 2/28/15)
- Can UC Answer These 5 Big Questions About Its Spending? (KQED 2/19/15)
- Tuition Hike put on Hold for UC Summer School (LAT 2/18/15)
- State Assembly Proposes Audit of UC Budget (New University 2/17/15)
- Stage III (UCLAFA 1/30/15)
- UCSA Demands Greater Fiscal Transparency of Regents (Daily Cal 1/27/15)
- UC's Funding Tangle Goes Beyond Today's Dispute (LAT 1/18/15)
- UC President, Gov. Brown to Jointly Review University Finances (LAT 1/17/15)
- Essay Sees the Possible Collapse of Austerity Politics Around Higher Education (Christopher Newfield 1/12/15)
- UC Student Association Passes Vote of No Confidence in UC Regents and UC President Janet Napolitano (Daily Cal 1/11/15)
- UC-AFT Proposes New Way to Create Affordability and Access with Quality (Changing Universities 1/9/15)
- If Jerry Had a Hammer (UCLAFA 1/7/15)
- The Tea Leaves Games, The Already Baked, And All Those 'If -Then' Promises (Cloudminder 1/2/15)
2014
- Finally, UC Gets Budget Attention (LAT 12/29/14)
- The History of UC Tuition Since 1868 (Daily Cal 12/22/14)
- That Other Half (Cloudminder 12/21/14)
- Brown, Legislature Study Ways to Avoid UC, Cal State Tuition Hikes (LAT 12/10/14)
- UC’s Rising Tuition Sparks Bill to End College System’s Autonomy (SFGate 12/5/14)
- Sen. Lara Proposes Giving Lawmakers Some Control of UC System (LAT 12/3/14)
- California Lawmakers Set Goals as New Legislature Convenes (LAT 12/1/14)
- Listen to the Regents Morning Meeting of Nov. 19, 2014 (UCLAFA 11/28/14)
- Listen to the Regents Meeting of Nov. 20, 2014 (UCLAFA 11/27/14)
- The Impact of Tuition Hikes on Undergraduate Debt (Christopher Newfield 11/26/14)
- Those Cal Grants Numbers, Future Costs and More (Cloudminder 11/24/14)
- University of California to Raise Tuition Despite Protests (NYT 11/20/14)
- UCOP’s Failed Funding Model (Changing Universities 11/20/14)
- Wild Day at the UC Regents: The Stakes of the Tuition Wars (Christopher Newfield 11/19/14)
- Tuition Hikes at The University of California: A Battle for UC's Soul (LAT 11/17/14)
- Rising Retirement Costs Help Drive UC Plan to Raise Tuition (SacBee 11/16/14)
- Predictable (Reclaim UC 11/16/14)
- UC Funding Measures the Value we Place on Public Education (SacBee 11/16/14)
- Who Will Pay for UC? (Vernon, SacBee 11/15/14)
- How Do You See The University of California? (Daily Cal 11/14/14)
- Senate Leader Offers Alternative to UC Tuition Hike Proposal (LAT 11/13/14)
- HIKING TO NOWHERE: UCOP Doubles-down on Losing Strategy (Michael Meranze 11/12/14)
- The Governor and Regents Face Off on Tuition (LAT 11/12/14)
- The Problems with UC's Tuition Proposal (Changing Universities 11/11/14)
- UC Faces Opposition from Brown on Tuition Increase Proposal (Sac Bee 11/6/14)
- UC Proposes Steady Tuition Hikes (LAT 11/6/14)
- Tuition Increase Likely For 2015 (UCSD Guardian 11/2/14)
Posted by
Alysse
2019
- The Revenge of the Poverty-Stricken College Professors Is Underway in Florida. And It's Big. (Splinter 6/19/19)
- A Union Fight at Marquette University (Jacobin 5/21/19)
- Adjuncts at Mercy, Occidental Form Unions (IHE 5/16/19)
- Privilege, Guilt, Responsibility, and Contingent Labor (IHE 4/11/19)
- Letter: Contingent Faculty are Marginalized (Duke Chronicle 4/5/19)
- Federal Appellate Court Decision Could Make It Harder to Adjuncts to Form Unions (IHE 3/14/19)
- University of California Staff Researchers Opt to Form a Union, Joining Postdocs (Science Mag 2/6/19)
- Wright State Cancels Courses, Looks for Replacement Instructors as Faculty Strike Continues (IHE 2/6/19)
- Fashioning Professionalism as Contingent Faculty (IHE 2/4/19)
- The Invisible Faculty (CHE 1/2/19)
2018
- Columbia Teachers College Professor’s Office Vandalized with Swastikas, Anti-Semitic Slurs (Columbia Spectator 11/29/18)
- Julius Scott and Me: The Costs of Contingency (IHE 11/4/18)
- New Data on Adjunct Instructors (IHE 11/2/18)
- UI Researcher Looks at Changes in Labor Force at University (Press-Citizen 10/2/18)
- Organizing in the Non-Community Community College (Academe Blog 8/25/18)
- Summertime, and the Living’s Not Easy (for Adjunct Faculty) (Academe Blog 6/10/18)
- Do Unions Help Adjuncts? (CHE 6/3/18)
- How to Fix the Adjunct Crisis (CHE 5/30/18)
- PSC tells Albany: ‘$7K for adjuncts!’ (Portside 5/14/18)
- Adjuncts of the World, Unite! (Other Worlds 5/9/18)
- U Chicago Adjuncts Approve First Union Contract (IHE 4/17/18)
- Lack of Respect for Nontenured Faculty Harms Education Quality (Daily Bruin 4/10/18)
- A Radical Idea About Adjuncting: Written for Those with Tenure (or on the Tenure Track) (Annemarie Pérez 4/1/18)
- Historian's 'Quit Lit' Essay Rejects Notion That Leaving Higher Ed Equals Personal Failure (IHE 2/13/18)
2017
- Fordham Adjuncts, Instructors Vote Union Yes (Portside 12/6/17)
- GAO Report on Non-Tenure-Track Faculty (IHE 11/21/17)
- Full-time Jobs in English and Languages Reach New Low, MLA Report Finds (IHE 11/21/17)
- About that AHA Jobs Chart (The Junto 11/20/17)
- Barnard Adjunct Fights for Her Job (Academe Blog 11/3/17)
- "Tenured Allies" and the Normalization of Contingent Labor (AAUP 10/17)
- Growing Reliance on Part-Time Faculty Shortchanges Instructors, Students (Daily Bruin 10/31/17)
- The Scary Stats on Contingency in Higher Education (Academe Blog 10/31/17)
- USNWR Letter (10/21/17)
- Exit the Edu-Factory – a Call for Manuscripts (The Homeless Adjunct 10/1/17)
- On the AAUP, Two Distinct Tiers, and Incentivizing Institutions to Hire Part-Time Faculty (Academe Blog 9/28/17)
- Facing Poverty, Academics Turn To Sex Work and Sleeping in Cars (Guardian 9/28/17)
- University of California System Didn't Follow Its Own Contracting Rules, State Audit Finds (LAT 8/22/17)
- After Anti-Trump Tweets, Fresno State Removes Adjunct Professor From Teaching Position (IHE 8/7/17)
- BYU-Idaho Fires Adjunct for Pro-LGBT Post (IHE 7/19/17)
- Some 1,500 Adjuncts at CUNY Win Three-Year Contracts (IHE 7/10/17)
- A Debt (Andrew Goldstone 7/1/17)
- A Postscript to “One Faculty and Academic Governance” (Academe Blog 5/30/17)
- In Higher Ed, Adjuncts May Have Most to Lose if Obamacare Is Repealed (CHE 5/5/17)
- Seven Years an Adjunct: Part I (Academe Blog 3/12/17)
- Colorado's Part-Time Professors Brace For Another Year With No Raise (KUNC 2/28/17)
- How Do I Exploit Thee? Let Me Count The Ways (Academe Blog 2/21/17)
- Muscling My Way Over (Academe Blog 2/9/17)
- Study Looks at Impact of Adjunct Hiring on College Spending Patterns (IHE 1/5/17)
2016
- Contingent Faculty in the Age of Trump (Changing Universities 12/13/16)
- 2 New Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Unions (IHE 11/28/16)
- Life in Academic Poverty as an Underpaid University Teacher: “They Just Don’t Want to Pay” (Salon 11/24/16)
- Free (Or Fettered) to Teach at the Community College? (Academe Blog 11/12/16)
- Truman Capote Award Acceptance Speech (Kevin Birmingham 10/19/16)
- Life in Academic Poverty as an Underpaid University Teacher (Salon 9/24/16)
- Adjuncts and Academic Freedom (Academe Blog 9/19/16)
- Credentialism and Corruption: Vile College Administrators Edition (Naked Capitalism 8/25/16)
- N.L.R.B. Expands Adjunct Rights to Organize at Religious Universities (Academe Blog 8/25/16)
- Study Finds Gains in Faculty Diversity, But Not on the Tenure Track (IHE 8/22/16)
- Academic Labor: A Response to Bérubé and Ruth (Academe Blog 7/30/16)
- Tenure Tracks and Terminal Degrees: A Reply to Maisto and Kahn (Academe Blog 7/28/16)
- How Much Can Unions Lift Adjuncts? CUNY Contract Fight Hinges on What’s Good Enough (CHE 7/25/16)
- Adjunct Professorships Hurt Students and Educators Alike. Is it Time to Abandon Tenure? (Salon 6/30/16)
- The Contingent Faculty Retirement Crisis (Sarah Kendzior 5/16/16)
- Supporting NTT Faculty at the U of Illinois (Academe Blog 4/20/16)
- Community College Faculty Press Governing Board for Workplace Reforms (Academe Blog 2/29/16)
- Colorado Community College AAUP Fighting for “Adjunct” Faculty (Academe Blog 2/11/16)
- “Not Contractually Obligated” (Academe Blog 1/28/16)
- The Soul of Higher Education Under Corporatization (Assemble 4 Action 1/15/16)
- Does the New Crop of First Adjunct Union Contracts Include Meaningful Gains? (IHE 1/15/16)
2015
- USC Faculty Moves Ahead With Union Election Plan, Despite Warning of Increased Hostility (LAT 11/24/15)
- Colleges That Shortchange Adjuncts are Ultimately Compromising Students (IHE 11/5/15)
- In the Midst of Union Battle, Duquesne University Just Laid Off All but One of Its English Adjuncts (In These Times 10/28/15)
- Campus Equity Week About Inequality in America's High Education System (San Diego Free Press 10/26/15)
- Teaching While Poor: Adjunct Professors and the Fight for Fair Wages (The Nation 10/26/15)
- UC And The New Economic Paradigm (Contra Costa Times 8/22/15)
- Adjunct Faculty at Florida SouthWestern See Cuts as Full-Time Professors Get Increases (IHE 7/29/15)
- ASU: Teaching as "Luxury" (IHE 6/18/15)
- Essay by an Instructor Who has Taught as an Adjunct for 25 Years (IHE 5/11/15)
- Study Suggests Most Part-Time Faculty Members Want Respect even More than Full-Time Work (IHE 5/6/15)
- They Turned College Into McDonald’s: Adjunct Professors, Fast-Food Wages and How Colleges Screw More Than Just Students (Salon 5/2/15)
- What Do I Tell My Students? (Rachel Leventhal-Weiner 4/30/15)
- Labor Conference Panel Centers on Contract Provisions for Adjuncts for Course Cancellation Payments and More (IHE 4/21/15)
- Adjuncts Participate in National Day of Action for a Living Wage (IHE 4/16/15)
- Casualisation Through Internal Outsourcing (Our Kingdom 4/9/15)
- Union Fights Massachusetts State Colleges' Challenge to Cap on Part-Time Faculty (IHE 4/1/15)
- California Part-time faculty Association Asks Legislators for “Living Wage” (Adjunct Nation 3/31/15)
- Adjuncts Deem National Walkout Day a Success (IHE 2/26/15)
- New Delphi Project Report Outlines Evolving Faculty Models and Growing Support for Reform (IHE 2/20/15)
- America’s “Visiting Professor” Scam: How Colleges are Watering Down Higher Education (Salon 2/19/15)
- Union Sets 'Aspirational Goal' for Adjunct Pay (IHE 2/9/15)
- Adjuncts Stall U. of Memphis Attempt to Privatize Their Social Security (IHE 1/13/15)
- New Congress Seeks to Redefine Full-Time Work in Health Law, Which Colleges Support, Adjuncts Don't (IHE 1/8/15)
- California Colleges See Surge in Efforts to Unionize Adjunct Faculty (LAT 1/3/15)
2014
- With Republican Gains, Adjuncts May Struggle to Keep Foothold on Capitol Hill (CHE 11/6/14)
- Appeals Court Backs Adjunct in Case Over First Amendment (IHE 10/31/14)
- Tufts Adjuncts Tout Pay and Job Security Gains in First Union Contract (IHE 10/28/14)
- Essay on How Tenure-Track Faculty Members Should Treat Adjuncts (IHE 10/24/14)
- Essay On the Way Many Reformers of Higher Education are Ignoring the Faculty Role (IHE 10/7/14)
- National Adjunct Walkout Day Planned (IHE 10/6/14)
- Adjuncts, Retirements and Sexual Harassment: A Survey of Campus HR Leaders (IHE 9/29/14)
- Professors on Food Stamps: The Shocking True Story of Academia in 2014 (Salon 9/21/14)
- Mills College Adjuncts Protest Changes That Were Instituted Shortly After a Union Vote (IHE 9/17/14)
- A Democracy Index for Higher Education (Changing Universities 8/7/14)
- Adjuncts Welcome Congress's New Interest in Their Working Conditions (CHE 7/30/14)
- Adjuncts at Risk for Anxiety, Depression (IHE 7/28/14)
- Colleges Assign Adjunct Hiring to a Third Party (IHE 7/21/14)
- Off the Tenure Track and at the Helm: Adjuncts Now Lead Some Faculty Senates (CHE 6/2/14)
- Cal State Plans Push to Hire More Full-Time Faculty (LAT 6/1/14)
- Student Debt Grows Faster at Universities With Highest-Paid Leaders, Study Finds (NYT 5/18/14)
- Congratulations, Class of 2014: You’re Totally Screwed (Salon 5/18/14)
- Through Lincoln’s Glass Tower: Adjuncts in Peril (Tiffany Kraft 5/17/14)
- The Plight of the Nonrenewed (IHE 5/16/14)
- Pacific Lutheran Argues Adjuncts are part of Management to try to Deny Them Unionization (CHE 3/31/14)
- 'Critical' Organizing (IHE 3/25/14)
- Portland State needs more tenure-track faculty: Guest opinion (The Oregonian 3/17/14)
- U. of Illinois at Chicago Strike Showed Unusual Support for Contingent Faculty (CHE 2/21/14)
- Seattle U. Adjuncts File for Union Election; U. of LaVerne Votes to Be Counted (IHE 2/21/14)
- Complaint Halts Loyola Marymount Adjunct Union Vote (IHE 2/17/14)
- The Wal-Mart-ization of Higher Education: How Young Professors are Getting Screwed (Salon 2/16/14)
- Faculty on Strike (Jacobin 2/14/14)
- IRS Suggests 'Reasonable' Ways of Calculating Adjuncts' Hours (CHE 2/11/14)
- Questions From the NLRB (IHE 2/11/14)
- Concerned with Growing Class Sizes, Teaching Assistant Union Files Complaint Against UC (SacBee 2/9/14)
- New Analysis Shows Problematic Boom In Higher Ed Administrators (NECIR 2/6/14)
- How One Professor’s American dream Turned into the American Nightmare (PBS 2/5/14)
- Administrator Hiring Drove 28% Boom in Higher-Ed Work Force (CHE 2/5/14)
- It's Not Faculty Salaries (IHE 2/5/14)
- Colorado Lawmakers Take Up Sweeping Overhaul of Adjunct Working Conditions (CHE 2/4/14)
- Adjuncts Gain Traction With Congressional Attention (CHE 2/3/14)
- Equality for Adjuncts (IHE 1/29/14)
- Congress Notices the Loss of Tenure (Changing Universities 1/28/14)
- Responses on the Working Conditions of Contingent Faculty in Higher Education (Ed Workforce 1/24/14)
- It's Time for Congress to Pay Attention to the Abuse of Adjunct Faculty Members (IHE 1/24/14)
- Crowded Out of Ivory Tower, Adjuncts See a Life Less Lofty (NYT 1/19/14)
- Austerity Premises Refuted, Governor's Budget Preaches Austerity (Christopher Newfield 1/9/14)
2013
- More College Adjuncts See Strength in Union Numbers (NYT 12/3/13)
- Lawmakers Told of Health-Care Law's Harmful Effect on Adjuncts and Colleges (CHE 11/15/13)
- Even in New York, Adjuncts' Paychecks Can Take Their Sweet Time (CHE 10/29/13)
- Wellness Plans, Retirement and Adjunct Health Care: A Survey of Chief HR Officers (IHE 10/25/13)
- Adjunct Inequities (IHE 10/15/13)
- An Adjunct's Death Becomes a Rallying Cry for Many in Academe (Chronicle 9/19/13)
- Union Raises for Adjuncts (IHE 7/26/13)
- An Existing Just Model For Non-Tenure-Track Faculty (Bob Samuels 5/28/13)
- When Adjunct Faculty Are The Tenure-Track's Untouchables (Christopher Newfield 5/19/13)
- Teaching Students Who Adjuncts Are (IHE 2/6/13)
- AAUP Issues New Report on Adjunct's Role in Governance and Protections for Adjuncts (IHE 1/23/13)
2012
- Back To School... If They Need You (Michael Meranze 8/25/12)
2010
- Is the Obama Administration Excluding Adjuncts from CC Summit? (CHE 10/1/10)
- Adjuncts and Allies (IHE 8/17/10)
- Making Adjuncts "Temps" (IHE 8/9/10)
- EastWest U Fires All Adjuncts After Start of Union Drive (IHE 6/17/10)
- New Faculty Majority Begins Push for Adjunct Unemployment Benefits (CHE 5/24/10)
2009
- Adjunct Unionization on the Rise (CHE 12/15/09)
2008
- Adjunct Exploitation Hurts Students!! (Christopher Newfield 12/7/08)
- Adjunct World (Christopher Newfield 6/17/08)
Ongoing
- Un-Hired Ed: The Growing Adjunct Crisis (Infographic)
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2019
- Cuts Leave Concerns for Liberal Arts at Tulsa (IHE 6/6/19)
- What Really Happened at Stanford University Press: an Insider’s Account (CHE 5/10/19)
- Stevens Point Abandons Controversial Plan to Cut Liberal Arts Majors Including History and Foreign Languages (IHE 4/11/19)
- Stanford University Press—And All It Stands For—Is In Peril. (Save SUP 4/19)
- To Help Students, Colleges Are Dropping Remedial Courses. Will That Backfire? (CHE 2/18/19)
- Wright State Cancels Courses, Looks for Replacement Instructors as Faculty Strike Continues (IHE 2/6/19)
- College of Theseus (Timothy Burke 1/24/19)
- Colleges Lose a ‘Stunning’ 651 Foreign-Language Programs in 3 Years (CHE 1/22/19)
2018
- Gender Studies Scholars Say the Field Is Coming Under Attack in Many Countries Around the Globe (IHE 12/5/18)
- More Faculty Unrest at U Wisconsin Stevens Point (IHE 11/30/18)
- UW Stevens Point Faculty Oppose Restructuring (Academe Blog 11/27/18)
- Goucher College Says It's Eliminating Liberal Arts Programs Such as Math, Physics and Religion, in Attempt to Keep Costs Down (IHE 8/17/18)
- U of Akron Cuts 80 Degree Tracks (IHE 8/16/18)
- Marylhurst Professors Oppose Closure (IHE 5/21/18)
- Open University Plans Major Cuts to Number of Staff and Courses (Guardian 3/21/18)
- A University of Wisconsin Campus Pushes Plan to Drop 13 Majors — Including English, History and Philosophy (Wa Po 3/21/18)
- Faculty Members at Wisconsin Stevens Point React to Plan to Cut 13 Majors (IHE 3/13/18)
- U. of Wisconsin at Stevens Point Proposes Cutting 13 Programs, Mostly in Liberal Arts (CHE 3/5/18)
- Kentucky Governor Seeks to Kill State's University Press (IHE 1/29/18)
2017
- No Longer Superior? (Academe Blog 11/4/17)
- Plan to Phase Out 2 Dozen Programs Stuns Faculty at Wisconsin-Superior (CHE 11/1/17)
- Wisconsin-Superior Will End 9 Majors (IHE 11/1/17)
- Mills College Lays Off Five Tenured Professors (Academe Blog 7/4/17)
- DeVos Is Discarding College Policies That New Evidence Shows Are Effective (NYT 6/30/17)
- Proposed Cuts to Humanities at SUNY Stony Brook (IHE 5/9/17)
- Long Island University, Citing Need to Attract Students, Orders Faculty To Trim Core Curriculum (IHE 4/3/17)
- American Authoritarianism and Academic Administration (Academe Blog 2/28/17)
- Virginia Intermont's Campus Sale Begs Questions of How Colleges Close Accounts (IHE 1/5/17)
2016
- UMass Labor Center Saved from Shutdown (Academe Blog 12/30/16)
- The Death of ITT Tech, Part One: What Happened? (Student Activism 9/6/16)
- U Mass Amherst Threatens to Close Labor Center (Talking Union 9/5/16)
- How Can an Increasingly Popular Academic Review Process Seem More Meaningful to Faculty Members? (IHE 8/16/16)
- Should an HBCU Founded by Black Civil War Veterans Shutter its History Department, Against the Recommendation of a Faculty Committee? (IHE 7/20/16)
- Questions Raised About Cuts in Liberal Arts Programs at Western Illinois (IHE 6/14/16)
- At Small Colleges, Harsh Lessons About Cash Flow (NYT 4/29/16)
- UC Berkeley’s Public Health Undergraduate Major Faces Potential Elimination (Daily Cal 2/29/16)
- President Wins an Award for Cutting Tenured Faculty Jobs (IHE 2/29/16)
2015
- Saint Rose Cuts 23 Faculty Jobs, 27 Programs (IHE 12/14/15)
- Saint Rose Faculty Informed of Cuts Friday (Times Union 12/11/15)
- As Degrees Are Cut, Critics Continue to Decry Dismantling of U. of North Carolina (CHE 5/27/15)
2014
- The Plight of the Public Regional College (CHE 11/19/14)
- 2 More Programs to Be Cut at U. of Southern Maine (CHE 10/27/14)
- Is Closing of Gender Studies Center a Coincidence? (IHE 5/14/14)
- Sudden Reprieve (IHE 4/14/14)
- Beyond Program Closings, a More Significant Menace (Philip Lewis 2/10/14)
2013
- Private Distress (IHE 12/9/13)
- Wither Pennsylvania (IHE 12/2/13)
- MSUM Considers Cuts in Tenured Faculty, Program Closures to Fix Projected $5 Million Deficit (In Forum 11/20/13)
- Battle Over Budget Cuts (IHE 11/20/13)
- Southern Oregon U. Takes Steps to Open Faculty Contract and Cut Programs (CHE 11/6/12)
- Anderson U. Ends French, Theater, Philosophy Majors (IHE 11/5/13)
- Area-Studies Centers Are Vital but Vulnerable (CHE 9/30/13)
- Mammoth 2-Year College to Lose Accreditation (IHE 7/5/13)
- Program Closures in Singapore Suggest 'Maturation' of Its Ambitions (CHE 5/24/13)
- Federal Cuts to Force Closure of Fusion Project at MIT (CHE 5/20/13)
- The Distress of Program Cuts (CHE 1/17/13)
- New AAUP Guidelines Call for Faculty Input in Program Closures and Layoffs (CHE 1/15/13)
2010
- Anticipating And Managing The Legal Risks Of Academic Program Closures (CUA 11/3/10)
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