Adjuncts

Adjuncts
From Bad to Worse
Feb 24, 2022
Survey on adjunct faculty working conditions finds that COVID-19 made an already bad situation more dire.

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A Push to Plan for Adjuncts and Equity
Saving Faculty Jobs
‘Tweaking’ Which Adjuncts Can Form Unions

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Evolving Faculty Careers

"Evolving Faculty Careers" is Inside Higher Ed's new print-on-demand booklet.

The compilation of articles can be downloaded, free, here.

On Thursday, April 12, Inside Higher Ed's editors presented a free webcast to discuss the themes of the booklet. You may view a recording of the webcast here.

This booklet was made possible in part by the advertising support of Top Hat.

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Survey of adjuncts finds pandemic made their situation worse
February 24, 2022
Survey on adjunct faculty working conditions finds that COVID-19 made an already bad situation more dire.
Papers urge institutions to think about adjuncts, including in terms of retirement
June 23, 2021
New papers from TIAA Institute urge institutions to plan for adjuncts, including their retirement concerns, with equity in mind.
Unions at Point Park and City College San Francisco fight for ways to save faculty jobs
May 11, 2021
Faculty unions at Point Park University and City College of San Francisco have found different means to the same end: preserving full-time faculty jobs threatened during COVID-19.
NLRB ruling potentially limits which adjuncts can form unions
February 25, 2021
Trump-appointed labor board majority potentially limits which private-institution adjuncts can form unions, based on whether or not they have meaningful -- not majority -- involvement in faculty governance bodies.
Growing resistance against cuts at Ithaca
February 8, 2021
The college wants to cut 116 full-time positions from its non-tenure-track faculty ranks, but alumni, students and professors are putting up a fight.
New AAUP statement urges institutions not to treat their adjuncts as expendable
August 12, 2020
New AAUP statement urges institutions to treat their adjuncts as essential team members during the pandemic -- and after.
Faculty members in new coronavirus hot spots want a remote fall or delayed opening
July 31, 2020
Reopening plans in many new coronavirus hot spots were drafted before cases surged. Faculty members in those states want a do-over, in the form of an all-online fall or at least a delayed opening.
No NLRB jurisdiction at religious colleges
June 11, 2020
In a blow to unions, NLRB overturns a rule saying that many adjuncts at religious institutions are entitled to collective bargaining.
New report says many adjuncts make less than $3,500 per course and $25,000 per year
April 20, 2020
New report on adjuncts says many make less than $3,500 per course and live in poverty.
Next-level precarity: non-tenure-track professors and COVID-19
April 10, 2020
Non-tenure-track professors are used to uncertainty about contract renewals. But the coronavirus and related hiring freezes represent an unprecedented threat to their careers. They're increasingly refusing to quietly bear the brunt of the disruption.

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