‘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 […]
By Bobbi-Lee Smart, Ed.D. My dissertation research on the “Involuntary Adjunct” focused on the perceptions of the impact of adjuncts on community college campuses in Southern California. I specifically wanted to understand the reality of […]
The Exploitation of Part-Time Professors It’s a well-known secret that public higher education in California and across the country is increasingly built on the backs of a large army of underpaid, exploited part-time […]
Colleagues! We need you to send emails to state Senators ASAP telling them to support CCCI’s-sponsored bill AB 1651, authored by Assemblymember Eloise Gómez Reyes. The bill will be voted on by the full Senate […]
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 […]
by Marnie Webster Twitter: @minimuswebster
by Dennis Selder On February 6th, the PBS Newshour, ran a show “Is academia suffering from ‘adjunctivitis’? Low-paid adjunct professors struggle to make ends meet.” In it are the familiar cast of characters—the full-timer who […]
After listening to educators’ responses to the account of Margaret Mary Vojtko’s life as a destitute contingent faculty member at Duquesne University, I find myself both saddened and angered. The anger comes from the reaction […]
