By Joe Berry Some updates from the Chicago Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor. Bowling Green U (Ohio) condemn admin role in crafting bill to outlaw outlaw collective bargaining. Eastern Michigan U contract for new adjuncts union (AFT) approved. Adjunct exploited at Plymouth State U (NH). Good article on massive healthcare strike in CA (biggest in…
By Joe Berry Here are some updates and links from the Chicago Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor. 1. Nice cartoon about Portland State bargaining 2. Good update article about organizing at St Xavier U in Chicago: Not In My Backyard: St. Xavier University Fights Union Organizing, By Tom Suhrbur, IEA Organizer 3. Update on bargaining…
In “Making It,” an essay in the new issue of Academe, Monica Jacobe talks about the public’s understanding of college as a route to the middle class and about public ire over the high cost of tuition. She says: What does not enter this conversation or, apparently, the minds of most of the stakeholders talking…
News outlets are reporting today that Adrienne Anderson died on Sept. 7 at the age of 59. Anderson was fired by the University of Colorado in 2005 after 12 years as an instructor in the environmental and ethnic studies departments, an important but overlooked academic freedom case. In 1999, Anderson noted how the University cancelled…
Yesterday, my co-blogger Ezra Deutsch-Feldman wrote about apparent abuses of management power at Sullivan University, a for-profit institution in Kentucky. Today, guest blogger Joe Berry looks for-profits from the other side, from the point of view of faculty. Joe is a labor educator and a contingent faculty activist; he has been active in both the…
Today is the last day to take the New Faculty Majority’s survey on contingent faculty appointments. With the survey, the NFM is trying to get a snapshot of the back-to-school experiences of faculty on contingent appointments by asking about hiring practices, orientations or lack thereof, and access to basic tools like photocopying and curricular materials.…