Category: Academic Solidarity

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’ […]

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

2014-03-01 / Academia & Class, Academic Solidarity
Should Full-Time Faculty Be CPFA Members?

The fall of 2013 has delivered a rich assortment of mainstream news stories and academic articles dealing with the tenuous circumstances of part-time faculty in higher education. In San Diego, The Reader published last week, […]

2013-12-23 / Academic Solidarity, Commentary

Out of the Shadows in Texas