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Category: Academia & Class

  • Pandemic impact continues at Cal State with fall 2022 enrollment decline

    Decrease largely due to record losses in transfers from the community colleges By ASHLEY A. SMITH of EdSourceOriginal published on November 23, 2022 Undergraduate enrollment in California State Universities continues to suffer from a pandemic-induced drop as fewer transfer students […]

    2022-11-29Academia & Class, e-Newsletter

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  • Part-time professors deserve the opportunity for full-time work

    By Alexis Moore, Jack Longmate and Keith Hoeller When most people think of part-time (or adjunct) professors, they conjure up the image of someone with a full-time job and benefits in the private sector who chooses to […]

    2022-01-18Academia & Class, Teachers' Rights

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  • The Big Lie

    Let's Get Rid of the 'Big Lie' - A presentation by John Govsky at CPFA's Annual Conference 2021

    2021-07-15Academia & Class, Events, Neoliberalism & Higher Education

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    Part-time Community College Faculty Face Challenges

    These adjunct faculty struggle to survive in regular times, but life in a pandemic has become even more stressful, as some colleges have cut classes and side jobs have dried up.

    2021-06-21Academia & Class

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  • Article alleges CalSTRS is the biggest investor in an East Bay Real Estate empire that evicts people

    Part-time faculty should be concerned about this newly released investigative piece, published yesterday in the East Bay Express.  It alleges that a real estate network called Lone Star has been busy evicting people in Oakland […]

    2015-10-07Academia & Class

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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 […]

    2014-10-17Academia & Class, Activism in Education

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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’ […]

    2014-06-03Academia & Class, Academic Solidarity, Activism in Education, Teachers' Rights

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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 […]

    2014-05-20Academia & Class, Neoliberalism & Higher Education

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  • Maslow a la Adjunct

    by Marnie Webster   Twitter: @minimuswebster

    2014-04-11Academia & Class, Public Disinvestment in Education

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  • Schadenfruede & Adjuncts

    25 February 2014 by Marnie Webster Much has been written about the working conditions of part time professors for good reason: they stink. The more we talk openly about the academy’s hypocritical two tier system, […]

    2014-03-01Academia & Class, Academic Solidarity

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