Contingent Faculty Issues

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)