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Tag: adjuncts

  • Adjuncts sue California community college system, eight local districts over unpaid work hours

    ‘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 […]

    2022-10-26California Community Colleges, e-Newsletter, Newsworthy, Teachers' Rights

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  • How can California improve the working conditions of community college adjuncts?

    Panel says worsening circumstances call for novel solutions By Michael Burke of EdSource.org (Article republished with permission of EdSource) The second class status of part-time faculty at California’s community colleges is a decades-long problem that demands […]

    2022-05-22e-Newsletter, Educational Reform, Health Benefits

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  • Some People in Higher Ed Are Delighted Adjuncts are Losing Their Jobs

    By P. D. Lesko This article was previously published on December 2, 2020 at AdjunctNation.com For many years, I have made myself unpopular among higher education union leaders for pointing out blatantly unequal union representation […]

    2021-05-17CPFA Journal

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  • Why Adjuncts Deserve Unemployment Compensation and How They Can Get It

    By Keith Hoeller Why are teachers the only professionals routinely denied unemployment when they are not working? Though our nation’s unemployment system was established in 1935 by the Social Security Act, not until 1970 did […]

    2020-11-17CPFA Journal

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  • CPFA Annual Spring Conference April 11, 2020 – CANCELLED

    Official Notice: CPFA’s 2020 Spring Conference has been cancelled due to the emergency closure of its venue, Diablo Valley College, to protect students and faculty from potential coronavirus (COVID-19) exposure. Whether the conference will be […]

    2020-02-01Events, Statewide Symposiums and Conferences

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    Why the Supreme Court Ruling on Unions Could Be Good for Adjuncts

    By Keith Hoeller Originally published in The Chronicle of Higher Education Republished with consent of the author. June 29, 2018   The debate over Janus v. AFSCME, on which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week, […]

    2018-06-30Commentary, Federal Policy

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  • National Adjunct Walkout Day Action in Sacramento

    Please join part-time faculty and allies for a day of action at the state Capitol building on Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 11 am. The gathering, based on an idea from California Part-Time Faculty Association […]

    2015-02-05Activism in Education

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  • Freeway Fliers Documentary Being Made

    Freeway Fliers: A Documentary about Higher Education’s Best Kept Secret is an upcoming film by Brad Rettele, Professor X and Professor Y, the latter two being anonymous adjuncts involved in the project. The film promises […]

    2014-12-17Newsworthy

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  • Interview: National Adjunct Walkout Day

    by Marnie Webster | 1 November 2014 Interest has skyrocketed regarding an anonymous call to action made via Facebook on October 1st. The post states simply that “adjuncts across the country will come together” next […]

    2014-11-07Activism in Education

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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 […]

    2014-10-09Activism in Education, Leadership

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  • Tarot Reading for Adjunct Faculty

    2014-09-20Commentary

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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 […]

    2014-07-06Academic Solidarity, Commentary

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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 […]

    2014-06-20Follow the Money, Neoliberalism & Higher Education

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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 […]

    2014-06-10Commentary, Teachers' Rights

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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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