Academic Labor

2019

• The True Costs of Research and Publishing (THE 8/29/19)
• Union Settlement News (UCLAFA 7/31/19)
• The Revenge of the Poverty-Stricken College Professors Is Underway in Florida. And It's Big. (Splinter 6/19/19)
• Support for UC Workers (Signature Collection 6/19)
• The Labor Movement’s Newest Warriors: Grad Students (New Republic 6/6/19)
• “Worker Power Is a Threat to the Way the University Is Run” (Jacobin 6/4/19)
• Nobody Wins if Graduate Students Can’t Organize (CHE 5/27/19)
• The University Is a Battleground (Jacobin 5/26/19)
• Trump Is Set To Deal A Major Blow To Grad Student Unions (HuffPo 5/23/19)
• A Union Fight at Marquette University (Jacobin 5/21/19)
• Adjuncts at Mercy, Occidental Form Unions (IHE 5/16/19)
• AFSCME Local 3299 Claims UC Illegally Refused to Bargain Over Outsourcing (Daily Bruin 5/6/19)
• The University Is a Ticking Time Bomb (CHE 4/16/19)
• U of Illinois Chicago Grad Assistants End Strike (IHE 4/8/19)
• University of California Librarians Win Stronger Protections for Academic Freedom (Academe Blog 4/1/19)
• This Is How You Kill a Profession (CHE 3/27/19)
• UC Davis Resident, Fellowship Physicians Authorize Labor Union (Sac Bee 3/26/19)
• Taking the Fight to CUNY (Jacobin 3/22/19)
• Federal Appellate Court Decision Could Make It Harder to Adjuncts to Form Unions (IHE 3/14/19)
• UC Strike News (UCLAFA 3/9/19)
• A Lesson From UC’s Split With Elsevier: Keep the Faculty in the Loop (CHE 3/1/19)
• Love, Labor, Loss (The Rambling 2/14/19)
• I Was a Student Worker Fighting for a $15 Wage. Now, I’m Facing a Criminal Record. (Portside 2/5/19)
• WTF Is Going on at Wright State? (IHE 2/7/19)
• 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)
• UC Librarians Continue Negotiating With UCOP Over Contracts (Daily Bruin 2/3/19)
• An Incredible Week at Wright State University (Academe Blog 1/27/19)
• Wright State Professors Strike Over Board-Imposed Contract They Say Would Gut Faculty Rights and Compensation (IHE 1/23/19)

2018

• Grinnell Student Union Leaders End Expansion Effort (IHE 12/18/18)
• Update: UC attempts to delay bargaining (ARUnited 12/14/18)
• 'Blatant Scare Tactics': Iowa College Leads Crackdown on Student Unions (Guardian 12/11/18)
• Columbia to Bargain With Grad Student Union, Ending Years-long Struggle Over Union Recognition (Columbia Spectator 11/19/18)
• Julius Scott and Me: The Costs of Contingency (IHE 11/4/18)
• New Data on Adjunct Instructors (IHE 11/2/18)
• About Three-quarters of All Faculty Positions Are Off the Tenure Track, According to a New AAUP Analysis (IHE 10/12/18)
• UI Researcher Looks at Changes in Labor Force at University (Press-Citizen 10/2/18)
• Columbia Postdoctoral Workers Gain Employee Status, to Hold Vote to Unionize Following NLRB Ruling (Columbia Spectator 9/21/18)
• Academic Freedom and Librarians: A Natural Fit (IHE 9/17/18)
• Brandeis Grad Students Win Significant Gains in Union Contract, Even as Trump Administration Has Exerted Influence on NLRB (IHE 9/5/18)
• Do University Librarians Have Academic Freedom? (Academe Blog 8/14/18)
• UCLA’s Disregard for Its Librarians Shows Once Again Its Exploitation of Workers (Daily Bruin 8/5/18)
• Non-Tenure-Track Fordham Instructors Win Big Raises (IHE 7/19/18)
• Oregon State U Faculty Is Unionized (IHE 6/29/18)
• Brown University Graduate Employees Sign Landmark Union Agreement with Administration (Uprise RI 6/21/18)
• Do Unions Help Adjuncts? (CHE 6/3/18)
• Mayim Bialik Declines to Speak at Commencement, Cites Support of AFSCME (Daily Bruin 5/31/18)
• The Sky Is Falling (Profession 5/21/18)
• UCLA Lecturer Cuts Are Latest in UC’s Mistreatment of Employees (Daily Bruin 5/13/18)
• Duke President Apologizes for Firing of Baristas (IHE 5/12/18)
• Class of 2018: College Edition (EPI 5/10/18)
• We Don’t Need No Education? (Boston Review 5/9/18)
• Coverage of UC Workers May 7-9 Strike (Cloudminder 5/9/18)
• New School Grad Assistants Go on Strike (IHE 5/9/18)
• Columbia and the Long Struggle for Graduate Student Employee Rights (Tropics of Meta 5/5/18)
• UC Service Workers to Strike May 7-9 (UCLA Faculty 5/3/18)
• Harvard Will Bargain with Grad Assistant Union (IHE 5/2/18)
• Columbia’s War On Labor (New Republic 5/1/18)
• Volunteers of the Ivory Tower (New Republic 5/1/18)
• A Strike Against Trumpism at Columbia (Dissent 4/26/18)
• With a Nod to '68, Columbia Grad Students Strike (Jewish Currents 4/25/18)
• Volunteer Faculty: The Death Knell for Public Higher Ed (IHE 4/25/18)
• University of California Union Votes for Strike, Commencement Speakers Urged to Boycott (Daily News 4/19/18)
• U Chicago Adjuncts Approve First Union Contract (IHE 4/17/18)
• Graduate Student Union to Strike on April 24 Unless University Begins Bargaining (Columbia Spectator 4/16/18)
• Lack of Respect for Nontenured Faculty Harms Education Quality (Daily Bruin 4/10/18)
• Universities Use the Specter of ICE to Try to Scare Foreign Grad Students Away From Unionizing (Splinter 4/10/18)
• Striking Resemblances (Public Books 4/5/18)
• Udacity Ends Pledge for Students to Get Hired or Get Their Money Back (IHE 3/16/18)
• Striking to Win (Jacobin 3/15/18)
• Learning On the Job (Jacobin 3/15/18)
• Universities Threaten to Punish Striking Staff Over Cancelled Lectures (Guardian 3/2/18)
• Demands Against the Long Crisis of the University (Critical Legal Thinking 2/14/18)
• Historian's 'Quit Lit' Essay Rejects Notion That Leaving Higher Ed Equals Personal Failure (IHE 2/13/18)
• U. of I. Graduate Student Workers Set Feb. 26 Strike Date (Chicago Tribune 2/8/18)
• Secret Lives of Bay Area Part-Time Profs: Here's Why They Work at Safeway, Live Out of Cars (SFGate 2/5/18)
• Fee Strike (Critical Legal Thinking 2/2/18)
• Graduate Student Union to File Unfair Labor Practice Following University’s Refusal to Bargain (Columbia Spectator 2/1/18)
• Columbia University Refuses To Recognize Graduate Student Union (Huff Po 1/30/18)
• Facing the Reality of the Trump Regime (AAUP 1/17/18)
• AAUP Submits Amicus Brief on Behalf of USC Faculty (Academe Blog 1/11/18)

2017

• Understanding the Political Economy of Academia Through the Tax Bills (LPE Blog 12/19/17)
• NLRB Ruling May Block 'Micro-Unit' TA Unions (IHE 12/18/17)
• NLRB Certifies Columbia Graduate Student Union (Columbia Grad Union 12/16/17)
• Some Tax-Bill Provisions Opposed by Higher Ed Dropped in Conference Negotiations (IHE 12/14/17)
• University of Arkansas Professors Want to Stall Vote on Changes They Say Would Upend Tenure (IHE 12/13/17)
• Graduate Students Protest Georgetown's Position on Union (IHE 12/7/17)
• Fordham Adjuncts, Instructors Vote Union Yes (Portside 12/6/17)
• Uncertainty for Grad Students as Tax Bill Goes to Conference (IHE 12/6/17)
• The Uncounted: Jobs and Graduates (Andrew Goldstone 11/25/17)
• 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)
• When Unpaid Student Loan Bills Mean You Can No Longer Work (NYT 11/18/17)
• This Means You: Some Thoughts on the Job Market (S-usih 11/18/17)
• The House Just Voted to Bankrupt Graduate Students (NYT 11/16/17)
• Graduate Student Union Organizers Seek Momentum Despite Political Shift (IHE 11/9/17)
• How the GOP Tax Plan Could Hurt Graduate Students — and American Research (CHE 11/7/17)
• Grad Students and Policy Experts Say Taxing Graduate Students' Tuition Waivers w]Would Spell Disaster (IHE 11/7/17)
• Bright and Gloomy Forecasts (Cloudminder 11/3/17)
• Unpaid (UCLAFA 11/3/17)
• 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)
• UC Berkeley Not in Compliance With 2015 Fair Wage Plan, Internal Audit Finds (Daily Cal 10/25/17)
• USNWR Letter (10/21/17)
• U of Chicago Grad Students Form Union (IHE 10/20/17)
• Bill Would Bar U. of Wisconsin Employees From Working at Planned Parenthood (CHE 10/17/17)
• U. of Chicago Administration Stands Against Free Expression for its Graduate Students (Academe 10/16/17)
• Suggested International Students Could Be Reported to ICE if They Unionized (Nation 10/5/17)
• Trump vs. Graduate Workers (Jacobin 10/2/17)
• Exit the Edu-Factory – a Call for Manuscripts (The Homeless Adjunct 10/1/17)
• Facing Poverty, Academics Turn To Sex Work and Sleeping in Cars (Guardian 9/28/17)
• CFA, CSU Reach Tentative Agreement on Two-Year Contract Extension (Academe Blog 9/26/17)
• Are Elite Universities 'Safe Spaces'? Not If You're Starting a Union (Guardian 9/9/17)
• Undergraduates Are Workers, Too (Jacobin 8/2/17)
• U. of Chicago Professor Defends Graduate Student Union Drive (Academe Blog 7/9/17)
• We Condemn Private Universities’ Attempts to Undermine Graduate Workers’ Rights (Academe Blog 7/7/17)
• A Debt (Andrew Goldstone 7/1/17)
• How Tenure-Track and Adjunct Faculty Joined Forces to Unionize at Notre Dame de Namur (IHE 6/30/17)
• Trump the Union Buster (New Republic 6/12/17)
• AU Beirut Professor Turned Back at U.S. Airport (IHE 6/12/17)
• Instructor Who Says She Brought Adjunct Union To Barnard No Longer Employed There (IHE 6/9/17)
• Organizing in the University (Viewpoint Magazine 6/1/17)
• Northwestern U Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Forms Union, Appeal in Progress (IHE 5/31/17)
• Outsourced UCSF Workers Sue State Regents (Mercury News 5/30/17)
• What Happened to Workers’ Ed? (Dissent 5/25/17)
• On the Yale University Unionization Efforts (LARB 5/16/17)
• Yale Law Faculty Defend Grad Student Union Effort (Academe Blog 5/13/17)
• Manchester University Accused of Planning 'Clearout' of Senior Staff (The Guardian 5/13/17)
• On Graduate Student Unionisation (Invisible Cities 5/5/17)
• Graduate Student Union Bids at Private Institutions Have Succeeded, Flopped and been Challenged Since a Major NLRB Decision (IHE 5/4/17)
• IT Outsourcing at UC-SF: It Ain't Over 'Til it's Over (UCLAFA 5/1/17)
• All Worked Up (a project about student labor)
• Yale Grad Students Go on Hunger Strike Over Union Flap (New Haven Register 4/25/17)
• Bowing to the ‘Quality’ (Academe Blog 4/2/17)
• Who Moved My Teachers? (Mother Jones 3/31/17)
• In Higher Ed, Loyalty Is a One-Way Street (IHE 3/6/17)
• Colorado's Part-Time Professors Brace For Another Year With No Raise (KUNC 2/28/17)
• Yale Grad Students Unionize (IHE 2/24/17)
• Bringing Unions to the Fight (Jacobin 2/17/17)
• Gender Pay Gap Persists for Higher Education Administrators (IHE 2/15/17)
• Victory for Free Speech in Iowa as Assault on Unions Intensifies (Academe Blog 2/14/17)
• Iowa Lawmakers Push Bill to Severely Restrict Collective Bargaining for Public Campus Employees (IHE 2/10/17)
• Iowa Republicans Propose Sweeping Changes to Collective Bargaining Laws, Public Unions (The Des Moines Register 2/7/17)
• Getting rid of IT (UCLAFA 1/27/17)
• Thousands Of UC Workers Go On Strike For Fair Wages, Pensions (Huff Po 1/10/17)
• How The University of California Exploited a Visa Loophole to Move Tech Jobs to India (LAT 1/6/17)
• Study Looks at Impact of Adjunct Hiring on College Spending Patterns (IHE 1/5/17)

2016

• UMass Labor Center Saved from Shutdown (Academe Blog 12/30/16)
• Outsourcing IT: In San Francisco, Some Tech Jobs Are Moving To India : All Tech Considered (NPR 12/27/16)
• Columbia Copying North Carolina Republican Tactics (Lawyers, Guns & Money 12/20/16)
• Noble Words and Foul Deeds at Columbia (Academe Blog 12/20/16)
• Columbia Challenges Vote by Graduate Students to Unionize (NYT 12/19/16)
• Graduate Teaching and Research Assistants Vote to Unionize (Columbia Spectator 12/9/16)
• LIU Faculty Contract Negotiations Stall Again (IHE 12/9/16)
• The Oakland Fire Tragedy and Higher Education (Academe Blog 12/7/16)
• Columbia Provost Coatsworth Escalates Assault on Grad Student Union Rights (Academe Blog 12/2/16)
• 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)
• Higher Education After the 2016 Election (AAUP 11/8/16)
• Victory at Harvard! (Academe Blog 10/26/16)
• The School of Subcontracting (Jacobin 10/25/16)
• Harvard Calls on Employees to Volunteer During Strike (Harvard Crimson 10/10/16)
• University of Chicago Graduate Workers Vote to Affiliate with AAUP and AFT (Academe Blog 10/5/16)
• IT Workers Fear More Outsourcing at U of California System (IHE 9/27/16)
• Back to Class with Lots of New Lessons: Debrief on the LIU Lockout (Academe Blog 9/17/16)
• Behind the Lockout (Jacobin 9/15/16)
• Defending Labor’s School (Jacobin 9/14/16)
• Faculty Are Laborers, Not 'Knowledge Workers' (IHE 9/12/16)
• University of California’s Outsourcing is Wrong, Says U.S. Lawmaker (Computer World 9/9/16)
• A Lockout at LIU (The Atlantic 9/7/16)
• How Unions Change Universities (Jacobin 9/1/16)
• Graduate Students, the Laborers of Academia (New Yorker 8/31/16)
• Crop of 'Anti-Union' University Websites Sparks Criticism from Proponents of Graduate Assistant Unions (IHE 8/30/16)
• An Open Letter to Columbia Provost John Coatsworth (Academe Blog 8/29/16)
• Graduate Students Are Workers: The Decades-Long Fight for Graduate Unions, and the Path Forward (Truth-Out 8/28/16)
• Academic Work Is Labor, Not Romance (CHE 8/26/16)
• N.L.R.B. Expands Adjunct Rights to Organize at Religious Universities (Academe Blog 8/25/16)
• The Union Libel: On The Argument Against Collective Bargaining in Higher Ed (LARB 8/25/16)
• U Michigan Has One of the Country's Oldest Graduate Student Unions And That Hasn't Held it Back (IHE 8/25/16)
• Unions in the Ivory Tower (NYT 8/24/16)
• Are PhD Students Irrational? (LARB 8/24/16)
• Union Victory for Student Employees! (Academe Blog 8/23/16)
• Student Assistants Covered by the NLRA (NLRB 8/23/16)
• In a Major Win For Teachers Unions, California Supreme Court Lets Teacher Tenure Ruling Stand (LAT 8/23/16)
• Student Demands Equal Pay for Full-Time and Student Workers (Daily Bruin 8/21/16)
• 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)
• Celebrating Defeat (Jacobin 7/19/16)
• CUNY’s Last Lifeline (Jacobin 7/16/16)
• Tenured Faculty Should Help Battle for Opportunities for Graduate Students and Adjuncts (IHE 6/28/16)
• New Study Documents Long-Term Losses of New Humanities Faculty Jobs (IHE 6/6/16)
• Students! Your Lecturers Are on Strike Because They Are Struggling to Survive (Guardian 5/26/16)
• The Elephant in the Seminar Room: Should the PhD Be Saved? (LARB 5/26/16)
• Can Graduate Students Unionize? The Government Can’t Decide (Bloomberg 5/12/16)
• First Layoff Notice at UC Berkeley Spurs Rally, Criticism of Chancellor (East Bay Times 5/5/16)
• Cal State and Faculty Union Agree to 10.5% Salary Raise Over Three Years (LAT 4/8/16)
• Cal State, Faculty's Union Reach Accord Over Salary Dispute (LAT 4/8/16)
• Wisconsin Regents Stymie Madison Faculty’s Bid to Restore Protections From Layoffs (CHE 4/7/16)
• Chancellor White Turns Back on Faculty (Academe Blog 3/21/16)
• CCSF Faculty Arrested in Contract Protest (Academe Blog 3/14/16)
• Community College Faculty Press Governing Board for Workplace Reforms (Academe Blog 2/29/16)
• UC Receives Second Complaint of Unfair Labor Practices (Daily Bruin 2/19/16)
• Living Wages Left Out of Library Renovations (Daily Nexus 2/13/16)
• Colorado Community College AAUP Fighting for “Adjunct” Faculty (Academe Blog 2/11/16)
• Lecturers’ Union, UC Reach Agreement Regarding New Employee Contract (Daily Bruin 2/8/16)
• CFA Announces Dates of Potential CSU Strike (Academe Blog 2/8/16)
• Washington State Extension Professor Says She's Being Forced Out Over Unrealistic Research Standards (IHE 2/4/16)
• “Not Contractually Obligated” (Academe Blog 1/28/16)
• 2 groups are working with the United Steelworkers to unionize about 5,000 faculty and nearly 3,000 graduate employees at the University of Pittsburgh (Daily Journal 1/27/16)
• Watch What You Say (CHE 1/22/16)
• Professors’ Union Bid at Private College Fails Under New Federal Standards (CHE 1/21/16)
• Florida Governor Wants to Know Why All Psychology Majors Aren't Employed (IHE 1/20/16)
• 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)
• ?Graduate Students at Private Universities Could Soon Have the Right to Unionize (The Nation 1/12/16)

2015

• Special Magistrate Sides with UF Faculty Union (Gainesville 12/29/15)
• Brandeis U Adjuncts Form Union (IHE 12/21/15)
• Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Advocates Oppose Proposed Changes to NEASC Standards (IHE 12/15/15)
• USC Faculty Moves Ahead With Union Election Plan, Despite Warning of Increased Hostility (LAT 11/24/15)
• How One College Became Ground Zero for Grad-Student Unionization (CHE 11/23/15)
• Fighting for Five With the CFA (Academe Blog 11/18/15)
• #MillionStudentMarch
• CUNY Faculty and Staff Take Militant Action! (Academe Blog 11/5/15)
• Colleges That Shortchange Adjuncts are Ultimately Compromising Students (IHE 11/5/15)
• CUNY Faculty Members Arrested After Staging Protest (NYT 11/4/15)
• Cal State Faculty Overwhelmingly Authorize Strike (LAT 11/4/15)
• UC Must Increase Transparency, Stop Deferral of Labor Disputes (Daily Bruin 11/1/15)
• Labor Official Rejects Columbia U. Graduate Students’ Bid to Unionize (CHE 10/30/15)
• UC Lecturer Union Rally Seeks to Inform UCLA of Contract Negotiations (Daily Bruin 10/29/15)
• 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)
• NEH Seeks to Spur Humanities Ph.D. Training Beyond Traditional Career Paths (IHE 10/21/15)
• A Ph.D. Should Result in a Tenure-Track Job, Not an Alt-Ac One (IHE 10/20/15)
• How Harvard Fights Unions: By Conceding the Union’s Most Basic Claims (Corey Robin 10/14/15)
• Lecturer Bargaining Blog 2015 (University Council-AFT)
• Connecticut State U Professors See Administration Proposal as an Attack on Tenure (IHE 10/9/15)
• Barnard College Adjuncts Approve Union Bid (IHE 10/5/15)
• Why Is College So Expensive if Professors Are Paid So Little? (The Nation 9/20/15)
• A Newspaper Report on Administrative Bloat: Some Remarks on the Sum of the Details and on Some of the Specific Details (Academe Blog 9/20/15)
• Enrollment in Humanities Ph.D. Programs Declines as More Graduate Schools Slim Down (CHE 9/17/15)
• T ennessee Higher Education Talks Big, Acts Cheap (The Nation 9/9/15)
• Myths about College Degrees and the Job Economy (Changing Universities 9/2/15)
• UC And The New Economic Paradigm (Contra Costa Times 8/22/15)
• N.L.R.B. Says Northwestern Football Players Cannot Unionize (NYT 8/17/15)
• Are Graduate Students ‘Workers’? (The Nation 8/13/15)
• UC's $15 Minimum Wage Leaves Out Many Workers (LAT 8/12/15)
• Tech Industry's Persistent Claim of Worker Shortage May Be Phony (LAT 8/1/15)
• Adjunct Faculty at Florida SouthWestern See Cuts as Full-Time Professors Get Increases (IHE 7/29/15)
• How Academe Breeds Anxiety (CHE 7/13/15)
• Can Faculty Labor Unions Stop the Decline of Tenure? (Process History 7/5/16)
• ASU: Teaching as "Luxury" (IHE 6/18/15)
• Don't Mourn... The Imminent Abolition of Tenure Creates a Threat As Well As An Opening (AtlasOfADifficult 5/30/15)
• Despite an Improving Economy, Young Grads Still Face an Uphill Climb (Economic Policy Institute 5/27/15)
• To Protest Colleagues' Lack of Job Security, a Professor Quits Her Tenured Post (CHE 5/11/15)
• Essay by an Instructor Who has Taught as an Adjunct for 25 Years (IHE 5/11/15)
• Could Yale Graduate Students Be the Next to Unionize? (Nation 5/6/15)
• 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)
• 8 Courses a Year for Every Professor? N.C. Lawmakers Ponder the Possibility (CHE 4/23/15)
• Does Instructional Quality Matter to the UC? (Changing Universities 4/21/15)
• Portland State Threat to Block Faculty Email Broke Oregon Law, Board Says (CHE 4/21/15)
• Labor Conference Panel Centers on Contract Provisions for Adjuncts for Course Cancellation Payments and More (IHE 4/21/15)
• Investigation Finds Major Gaps in Protections for Workers who Built NYU's Abu Dhabi Campus (IHE 4/17/15)
• Ohio Bill would Effectively Bar Faculty Unions at Public Colleges (IHE 4/17/15)
• Adjuncts Participate in National Day of Action for a Living Wage (IHE 4/16/15)
• Unionization Pays Off for Community-College Instructors (CHE 4/15/15)
• Casualisation Through Internal Outsourcing (Our Kingdom 4/9/15)
• Who Will Benefit From University Of California’s New “Global Campus? (Counter Punch 4/9/15)
• Warwick Uni to Outsource Hourly Paid Academics to Subsidiary (F.A.C.E. 4/3/15)
• 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)
• Proposal would Require UNC Professors to Teach Eight Courses a Year (Daily Tarheel 3/31/15)
• Graduate-Student Union Organizers Hail NYU Deal as a Breakthrough (CHE 3/11/15)
• Columbia Graduate Students Push for a Labor Union (NYT 3/3/15)
• Purdue Employees Protest Plan to Cut Employee Leave Time (IHE 3/2/15)
• At Last, Private Sector Faculty Get Green Light to Unionize (Truthout 2/28/15)
• Adjuncts Deem National Walkout Day a Success (IHE 2/26/15)
• State-by-State Breakdown of Graduation Rates (CHE 2/24/15)
• 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)
• Unemployment Rates for College Graduates Are Dropping, Report Says (CHE 2/19/15)
• Study Suggests Insular Faculty Hiring Practices in Elite Departments (IHE 2/13/15)
• Union Sets 'Aspirational Goal' for Adjunct Pay (IHE 2/9/15)
• UC Doctors Hold Strike for the First Time (Daily Bruin 1/27/15)
• New Economic Policy Institute Report Details Economic Challenges Facing UC Workers (Calitics 1/26/15)
• Arizona State U. Backs Down from some Details of a Controversial Plan for Writing Instructors (IHE 1/23/15)
• UC Doctors to Hold One-Day Strike over Alleged Unfair Labor Practices (Daily Bruin 1/19/15)
• The Emergence of the ‘Precariat’: What Does The Loss of Stable, Well-Compensated Employment Mean for Education? (Albert Shanker Institute 1/15)
• 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



• NLRB Ruling Shifts Legal Ground on Faculty Unions at Private Colleges (IHE 12/22/14)
• ASU English by the Numbers: It Ain't Pretty (IHE 12/18/14)
• ASU and the Non-Tenured Human Shields (IHE 12/16/14)
• Arizona State Tells Non-Tenure-Track Writing Instructors to Teach an Extra Course Each Semester (IHE 12/16/14)
• How Did These Graduate Students Improve Their Working Conditions? They Went on Strike! (The Nation 12/12/14)
• New Report Argues for Better Mentoring, Pay, and Career Progression for Postdocs (IHE 12/11/14)
• Oregon Grad Students Warned of Deportation (Daily Nous 12/6/14)
• Teaching Fellows Strike UO (Register Guard 12/2/14)
• Analysis Says Humanities Ph.D.s Get Take Longer in Coursework Than Dissertations (IHE 11/25/14)
• A College Tells Faculty It's Illegal to Speak to Student Journalists (IHE 11/13/14)
• With Republican Gains, Adjuncts May Struggle to Keep Foothold on Capitol Hill (CHE 11/6/14)
• Study Finds Serious Attrition Issues for Black and Latino Doctoral Students (IHE 11/3/14)
• 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)
• Wake Forest to Drop Traditional MBA Program (IHE 10/23/14)
• Measuring Humanities Degrees Misses Much of Their Value (CHE 10/20/14)
• Positive Reports for Humanities Earnings, Art School Job Prospects (IHE 10/17/14)
• Underemployment Hits Recent Graduates the Hardest (CHE 10/17/14)
• On Campuses and Beyond, the Job Market for New Graduates Looks Up (CHE 10/14/14)
• The U. of Texas Tracks What Its Graduates Earn. It Thinks You Should, Too. (CHE 10/14/14)
• When Education Brings Depression (NYT 10/7/14)
• Glut of Postdoc Researchers Stirs Quiet Crisis in Science (Boston Globe 10/5/14)
• National Adjunct Walkout Day Planned (IHE 10/6/14)
• The Humanities Ph.D. is a Calling, Not Vocational Training (IHE 10/3/14)
• Are STEM Fields More Gender-Balanced Than Non-STEM Fields in Ph.D. Production? (IHE 10/1/14)
• Mills College Adjuncts Protest Changes That Were Instituted Shortly After a Union Vote (IHE 9/17/14)
• NSF Data Find Very Low Unemployment Rates for Science, Engineering and Health Ph.D.s (IHE 9/15/14)
• Is a Degree Still Worth It? Yes, Researchers Say, and the Payoff Is Getting Better (CHE 9/5/14)
• The Future of College Degrees and Jobs in California (Changing Universities 9/2/14)
• Why Wall Street and Consulting Firms Win at the Elite College Brain Drain Game (Naked Capitalism 8/27/14)
• Students at the Barricades (Jacobin 8/24/14)
• Educating for Workplace Democracy (Changing Universities 8/20/14)
• Student Debt Relief for Adjuncts Bill (IHE 8/1/14)
• Adjuncts Welcome Congress's New Interest in Their Working Conditions (CHE 7/30/14)
• New York Educators Fight Back on Attacks to Tenure (NYT 7/29/14)
• Adjuncts at Risk for Anxiety, Depression (IHE 7/28/14)
• Colleges Assign Adjunct Hiring to a Third Party (IHE 7/21/14)
• Tenure Haters’ Big Delusion: Why Campbell Brown and Bo. are Wrong About Teaching (Salon 7/16/14)
• Employment for College Grads after the Recovery (Changing Universities 7/14/14)
• Essay Critiques the MLA Report on Graduate Education (IHE 6/24/14)
• Why is No Value Placed on Teaching Experience in UK Universities? (Guardian 6/20/14)
• It’s Official: The Boomerang Kids Won’t Leave (NYT 6/20/14)
• The Teaching Class (Guernica 6/16/14)
• California Teacher Tenure Laws Ruled Unconstitutional (NYT 6/10/14)
• Student Loans Make it Hard to Rent or Buy a Home (NYT 6/6/14)
• 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)
• Why NYU in Abu Dhabi Matters (Harry Lewis 5/28/14)
• The Neoliberal Assault on Academia (Aljazeera 5/25/14)
• Workers at N.Y.U.’s Abu Dhabi Site Faced Harsh Conditions (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)
• Essay Calls for New Model Job of Faculty Member-Administrator (IHE 5/12/14)
• Adjunct Instructors at Howard on Verge of Unionizing (CHE 4/30/14)
• UCONN Grad Union Gains State Recognition (IHE 4/21/14)
• AAUP Officers Win Elections That Focused on Their Union Emphasis (CHE 4/18/14)
• Student Academic Workers File 2 More Unfair Labor Practice Charges Against UC (Daily Cal 4/16/14)
• UIC Faculty Agrees to Tentative Contract (Chicago Tribune 4/16/14)
• Jersey Impasse (IHE 4/16/14)
• I Guess There Is a Crisis in Legal Education After All (Lawyers, Guns & Money 4/15/14)
• UC Officials Need to Adhere to Labor Contract (Daily Cal 4/15/14)
• Don’t Skimp on Legal Training (NYT 4/14/14)
• Napolitano Ushers in 9 Labor Agreements Since Taking Office (Daily Cal 4/10/14)
• The UConn Huskies Win ‘NCAA Hunger Games Bingo’ (The Nation 4/8/14)
• Portland State Faculty Strike Averted, Administration and Faculty Union Reach Tentative Agreement on New Contract (The Oregonian 4/6/14)
• UCLA TAs Join the Strike (Daily Bruin 4/3/14)
• Twenty Arrested at UCSC During Teaching Assistant Strike (Senteniel 4/2/14)
• As a New Lawsuit Seeks to Radically Transform Teaching Conditions, an Expert Warns of Our Nation's Education Shift (Salon 4/2/14)
• Why We Are Striking -- An Open Letter to UC Grad Students (Recclaim UC 3/31/14)
• Most Ph.D.'s in STEM Fields Work Outside of Academe, Analysis Finds (CHE 4/1/14)
• Pacific Lutheran Argues Adjuncts are part of Management to try to Deny Them Unionization (CHE 3/31/14)
• Football Players Win Union, for Now (IHE 3/27/14)
• 'Critical' Organizing (IHE 3/25/14)
• Grad-School Debt Is Said to Rise Rapidly and Deserve More Policy Attention (CHE 3/25/14)
• Careful, He Might Think He Works Here (Pan Kisses Kafka 3/23/14)
• Portland State needs more tenure-track faculty: Guest opinion (The Oregonian 3/17/14)
• Graduate-School Debt Is Raising Questions About Degrees’ Worth (CHE 3/17/14)
• Loyola Marymount Adjuncts Withdraw NLRB Petition (IHE 3/12/14)
• Good Steps Against Unpaid Internships (NYT 3/9/14)
• AFSCME union calls for strike vote after tentative agreement discussed with UC (Daily Bruin 3/4/14)
• Disrupting the Higher Ed Content Cycle (IHE 2/24/14)
• Lesley U. Adjuncts Vote to Unionize (CHE 2/24/14)
• 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)
• Service and Patient-Care Worker Union Announce 5-Day Strike (Daily Cal 2/20/14)
• The Rising Cost of Not Going to College (Pew Research 2/11/14)
• When 'Full Funding' Isn't Full (IHE 2/18/14)
• To Improve Equity, Focus on Stipends, Graduate Students Say (CHE 2/17/14)
• 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)
• Strike Authorized Among Service and Patient-Care Workers (Daily Cal 2/14/14)
• Faculty on Strike (Jacobin 2/14/14)
• For Interns, All Work and No Payoff (NYT 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)
• More Than Love (IHE 2/3/14)
• Adjuncts Gain Traction With Congressional Attention (CHE 2/3/14)
• Obama vs. Art History (IHE 1/31/14)
• Continental Drift (IHE 1/30/14)
• Equality for Adjuncts (IHE 1/29/14)
• College Football Players Seek to Form a Labor Union (CHE 1/29/14)
• Essay Calls for Humanities Graduate Programs to Resist Calls to Shrink (IHE 1/28/14)
• Congress Notices the Loss of Tenure (Changing Universities 1/28/14)
• Lawsuit Takes on California Teachers' Job Protections (LAT 1/25/14)
• 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)
• Scalia’s Golden Chance to Kill Unions (Salon 1/6/14)



2013



• Union Again at NYU (Jacobin 12/16/13)
• UC Reaches Collective Bargaining Agreement With Lecturers’ Union (Daily Bruin 12/12/13)
• Deans Consider New Demands on Graduate Education, in School and After (CHE 12/9/13)
• Professors to Grad Students: Focus on Studies, Not Wages (The Nation 12/4/13)
• More College Adjuncts See Strength in Union Numbers (NYT 12/3/13)
• Union Election, Not NLRB Vote (IHE 11/27/13)
• UC Recognizes Union of American Physicians and Dentists (Daily Bruin 11/22/13)
• Lawmakers Told of Health-Care Law's Harmful Effect on Adjuncts and Colleges (CHE 11/15/13)
• The Future Grad Students (IHE 11/14/13)
• UC Faculty in Support of Graduate Students (Move On 11/13/13)
• UC Union Workers to Hold Strike on Nov. 20 (Daily Bruin 11/8/13)
• UC Union Authorizes a Possible Strike at Campuses, Hospitals (LAT 11/1/13)
• 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)
• Union Impact and Non-Impact (IHE 10/8/13)
• NYU Again Tells Union It's Willing to Bargain—but Not With Everyone (CHE 10/7/13)
• UC Imposes Pension Terms on Employees; Union Protests (LAT 9/25/13)
• CUNY Union Condemns Police Repression at Petraeus Protests, CUNY Responds (The Dissenter 9/21/13)
• An Adjunct's Death Becomes a Rallying Cry for Many in Academe (Chronicle 9/19/13)
• Union Raises for Adjuncts (IHE 7/26/13)
• 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)



2011



• Interactive: See how long it will take California college graduates to break even on their education (SacBee 7/27/11)
• Failing Our Graduate Students (CHE 2/7/11)



2010



• Union Busting as Educational Reform (HuffPo 12/20/10)
• UK National Union of Students Pres Denounces His Own "Spineless" Failure to Support Occupations (Guardian 11/28/10)
• 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)
• College Grad Starting Salaries Decline Again (Bloomberg 5/19/10)
• NYU Grad Student Union Seeks Recognition (NYT 4/27/10)
• The Future of Graduate Education? (CFGE 4/10)



2009



• Adjunct Unionization on the Rise (CHE 12/15/09)



Ongoing



• Un-Hired Ed: The Growing Adjunct Crisis (Infographic)