A state Superior Court judge in Los Angeles County has ruled in a lawsuit that part-time professors in the Long Beach Community College District should be paid for work they do outside the classroom such as preparing lectures, grading papers, and meeting with students.
‘It’s been a long time brewing,’ one of the plaintiffs said over the suit which alleges violations of state law. By Thomas Peele an Investigative Reporter at EdSourceReposted with Permission of EdSource Seven part-time community college […]
Teachers on Wheels A Three Part Documentary on the Employment Crisis in Higher Education By Id Janakos Part 1: Part 2: Part 3:
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 […]
BY CAROLYN BETENSKY Guest Blogger / September 14, 2017 ACADEME BLOG, The blog of Academe magazine [Tenure for the Common Good has been re-posted with permission of the author] Those with the least job security […]
David Milroy and Carol Whaley: “Whose streets? OUR streets!” For part-time faculty across the state of California, Labor Day is much more than a day of commemoration. It is also a day to carry […]
Dear Contingent Faculty, Every so often, on this list and at conferences, people comment that the contingent faculty movement needs a new narrative. Given the lack of progress over the years, it is hard to […]
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 […]
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’ […]