National Adjunct Walkout Day Is Everyone’s Plan
28 October 2014 National Adjunct Walkout Day (NAWD) is on the tip of many adjuncts’ tongues, as well it should be. Such an action is long overdue. On Twitter, FaceBook, listservs, and the new NAWD […]
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Precariat of the World Unite?
17 October 2014 — Guy Standing The term “Precariat” has been bandied around for some time now as a convenient catchall for a growing sense of employment insecurity in the U.S. and Europe. It has […]
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Solidarity Monument | Diagram for a Proposal
by Robby Herbst ©RobbyHerbst Robby Herbst is an artist, writer, and radically oriented cultural organizer. Follow him on Facebook or Twitter.
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Adjunct Faculty Must Lead
by Dennis Selder The New York Times recently ran a story that finds empirical evidence corroborating the economic struggle most working people experience: “A Recovery, but Only for Those Who Need It Least.” The explanation the author gives for […]
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CCSF Critic’s Biased, Deeply Flawed Argument
by Richard B. Simon As a faculty member at City College of San Francisco — and an expatriate New Yorker who holds the Times to be the epitome of journalism and integrity — I was […]
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How Privateers Undermine Our Education System Flow Chart
This chart shows the insidious web of assault on our public education system. While the chart reveals the system behind privatizing our primary and secondary schools, many of the same groups are actively involved in […]
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Why Can’t We All Work Together?
by William Lipkin | 5 July 2014 I became active in the labor movement over 25 years ago at a time when very few people even knew what the word ‘adjunct’ referred to. I immediately […]
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Salgamos de las tinieblas en Texas
Here, Ana M. Fores Tamayo provides a Spanish version of her article, “Out of the Shadows in Texas.” 18 junio de 2014 Nota de los editores: Ana M. Fores Tamayo es una profesora ambulatoria en […]
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Adjunct, Be Not Loud
With special thanks to John Donne, [“Death Be Not Proud”] For the California Part-time Faculty Association. Adjunct, be not loud, though exploited be Willing and happy, for thou have no place; With those who make […]
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Out of the Shadows in Texas
2 June 2014 Editors Note: Ana M. Fores Tamayo teaches part time in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area of Texas, a state that dwarfs California in size and has quite different education codes. Given both states’ […]
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Higher Ed Oligarchy
When John Venn formalized the use of Euler diagrams “as a means of representing relations of inclusion and exclusion between classes, or sets,” he may never have imagined the many uses to which it would […]
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Discipline and Punish Revisited: Teaching Evaluation
by Dennis Selder A wonderful example of Foucault’s observations about how power and knowledge interact is teaching evaluation. Teaching evaluation is a special sort of knowledge that requires a difference in the power relationship among […]
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Path to student loan debt relief for adjuncts just got a little easier–but still a long way to go
By Krista Eliot The U.S. Department of Education has made a very important change to the application form for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, that just made the path to relief from student […]
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Are College Administrators Encouraging Public Disinvestment in Education?
by Dennis Selder It seems paradoxical to suggest that administrators and college presidents may be partly responsible for public disinvestment in higher education when the principal justification for having them around is to secure funds […]