Websites
For information about the national effort to organize adjuncts:
http://adjunctaction.org/
The Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success- Adrianna Kezar
http://www.thechangingfaculty.org/
For information about Bay Area adjunct faculty drives:
http://adjunctactionbayarea-seiu1021.nationbuilder.com/
Saint Mary's Organizing Committee website:
http://www.smc-union.squarespace.com/
California College of Art's website about their recent election:
http://ccaadjuncts.weebly.com/
CCA's student and alumni support page with letter of support from students:
https://www.facebook.com/CCAStudentsAndAlumniForAdjunctUnion
San Francisco Art Institute's faculty organizing website:
http://sfaivisiting4life.wordpress.com/about/
Link to SEIU 500 in Washington, DC. Many schools in the DC area have been organized:
http://www.seiu500.org/
http://adjunctaction.org/
The Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success- Adrianna Kezar
http://www.thechangingfaculty.org/
For information about Bay Area adjunct faculty drives:
http://adjunctactionbayarea-seiu1021.nationbuilder.com/
Saint Mary's Organizing Committee website:
http://www.smc-union.squarespace.com/
California College of Art's website about their recent election:
http://ccaadjuncts.weebly.com/
CCA's student and alumni support page with letter of support from students:
https://www.facebook.com/CCAStudentsAndAlumniForAdjunctUnion
San Francisco Art Institute's faculty organizing website:
http://sfaivisiting4life.wordpress.com/about/
Link to SEIU 500 in Washington, DC. Many schools in the DC area have been organized:
http://www.seiu500.org/
News and Articles
There is No Excuse for How Universities Treat Adjuncts - The Atlantic Magazine
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/higher-education-college-adjunct-professor-salary/404461/
University Shells Out Legal Fees to Bargain with its Own Faculty - The Daily Emerald
http://www.dailyemerald.com/2013/04/25/how-much-will-uo-spend-in-union-representation/
O Adjunct! My Adjunct! - The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/o-adjunct-my-adjunct
The Cost of an Adjunct - The Atlantic Magazine
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/05/the-cost-of-an-adjunct/394091/
What’s the Point of a Professor? - The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/opinion/sunday/whats-the-point-of-a-professor.html?_r=0
The Adjunct Revolt: How Poor Professors Are Fighting Back - The Atlantic Magazine
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/04/the-adjunct-professor-crisis/361336/
The Cost in the Decline of Unions - The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/19/opinion/nicholas-kristof-the-cost-of-a-decline-in-unions.html?_r=0
Dominican Untenured Profs Vote to Unionize - Marin Independent Journal
http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_27277272/dominican-untenured-profs-vote-unionize,
Administrators Ate My Tuition - by Benjamin Ginsberg, Washington Monthly magazine
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/septemberoctober_2011/features/administrators_ate_my_tuition031641.php?page=all
Saint Mary's College and Dominican University Untenured Profs Vote to Unionize - from the Contra Costa Times
http://www.contracostatimes.com/breaking-news/ci_27266126/adjunct-professors-at-saint-marys-college-vote-unionize
California Colleges See Surge in Efforts to Unionize Adjunct Faculty - from the LA Times
http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-unions-colleges-20150104-story.html#page=1
Union Vote Could Help Bay Area Adjunct Professors Get a Living Wage - by DU Adjunct Professor Josh Green
http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Union-vote-could-help-Bay-Area-adjunct-professors-5948548.php
Dominican's Adjunct Professors to Vote on Whether to Unionize, from the Marin Independent Journal
http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_26994942/dominicans-adjunct-professors-vote-whether-unionize
Tufts University Part-time Lecturers Approve Landmark First Contract
http://adjunctaction.org/blog/2014/10/27/tufts-university-part-time-lecturers-approve-landmark-first-contract/
The Just In Time Professor
House Committee on Education Staff Report summarizing conditions of contingent faculty in Higher Education
http://democrats.edworkforce.house.gov/sites/democrats.edworkforce.house.gov/files/documents/1.24.14-AdjunctEforumReport.pdf
Professors on Food Stamps, from Salon.com:
http://www.salon.com/2014/09/21/professors_on_food_stamps_the_shocking_true_story_of_academia_in_2014/
The Untouchables of American Higher Education
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pablo-eisenberg/the-untouchables-of-ameri_b_629815.html
Is Academia Suffering from Adjunctivitis? PBS news hour - one of several reports on Adjunct Faculty working conditions
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/is-academia-suffering-adjunctivitis/
The Sad Death of an Adjunct Professor Sparks a Labor Debate, an NPR radio report:
http://www.npr.org/2013/09/22/224946206/adjunct-professor-dies-destitute-then-sparks-debate
Commentary: An Adjunct Professor's Life
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1300293
Crowded Out of the Ivory Tower - One of several articles in the New York Times about challenges facing adjuncts:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/20/nyregion/crowded-out-of-ivory-tower-adjuncts-see-a-life-less-lofty.html
An Examination of the Changing Faculty:Ensuring Institutional Quality and Achieving Desired Student Learning Outcomes
http://www.uscrossier.org/pullias/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/CHEA_Examination_Changing_Faculty_2013.pdf
Faculty Speak Out
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2014/12/adjuncts-speak-out-stephanie-young-david-buuck-and-christian-nagler-in-conversation/
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/higher-education-college-adjunct-professor-salary/404461/
University Shells Out Legal Fees to Bargain with its Own Faculty - The Daily Emerald
http://www.dailyemerald.com/2013/04/25/how-much-will-uo-spend-in-union-representation/
O Adjunct! My Adjunct! - The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/o-adjunct-my-adjunct
The Cost of an Adjunct - The Atlantic Magazine
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/05/the-cost-of-an-adjunct/394091/
What’s the Point of a Professor? - The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/opinion/sunday/whats-the-point-of-a-professor.html?_r=0
The Adjunct Revolt: How Poor Professors Are Fighting Back - The Atlantic Magazine
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/04/the-adjunct-professor-crisis/361336/
The Cost in the Decline of Unions - The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/19/opinion/nicholas-kristof-the-cost-of-a-decline-in-unions.html?_r=0
Dominican Untenured Profs Vote to Unionize - Marin Independent Journal
http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_27277272/dominican-untenured-profs-vote-unionize,
Administrators Ate My Tuition - by Benjamin Ginsberg, Washington Monthly magazine
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/septemberoctober_2011/features/administrators_ate_my_tuition031641.php?page=all
Saint Mary's College and Dominican University Untenured Profs Vote to Unionize - from the Contra Costa Times
http://www.contracostatimes.com/breaking-news/ci_27266126/adjunct-professors-at-saint-marys-college-vote-unionize
California Colleges See Surge in Efforts to Unionize Adjunct Faculty - from the LA Times
http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-unions-colleges-20150104-story.html#page=1
Union Vote Could Help Bay Area Adjunct Professors Get a Living Wage - by DU Adjunct Professor Josh Green
http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Union-vote-could-help-Bay-Area-adjunct-professors-5948548.php
Dominican's Adjunct Professors to Vote on Whether to Unionize, from the Marin Independent Journal
http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_26994942/dominicans-adjunct-professors-vote-whether-unionize
Tufts University Part-time Lecturers Approve Landmark First Contract
http://adjunctaction.org/blog/2014/10/27/tufts-university-part-time-lecturers-approve-landmark-first-contract/
The Just In Time Professor
House Committee on Education Staff Report summarizing conditions of contingent faculty in Higher Education
http://democrats.edworkforce.house.gov/sites/democrats.edworkforce.house.gov/files/documents/1.24.14-AdjunctEforumReport.pdf
Professors on Food Stamps, from Salon.com:
http://www.salon.com/2014/09/21/professors_on_food_stamps_the_shocking_true_story_of_academia_in_2014/
The Untouchables of American Higher Education
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pablo-eisenberg/the-untouchables-of-ameri_b_629815.html
Is Academia Suffering from Adjunctivitis? PBS news hour - one of several reports on Adjunct Faculty working conditions
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/is-academia-suffering-adjunctivitis/
The Sad Death of an Adjunct Professor Sparks a Labor Debate, an NPR radio report:
http://www.npr.org/2013/09/22/224946206/adjunct-professor-dies-destitute-then-sparks-debate
Commentary: An Adjunct Professor's Life
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1300293
Crowded Out of the Ivory Tower - One of several articles in the New York Times about challenges facing adjuncts:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/20/nyregion/crowded-out-of-ivory-tower-adjuncts-see-a-life-less-lofty.html
An Examination of the Changing Faculty:Ensuring Institutional Quality and Achieving Desired Student Learning Outcomes
http://www.uscrossier.org/pullias/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/CHEA_Examination_Changing_Faculty_2013.pdf
Faculty Speak Out
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2014/12/adjuncts-speak-out-stephanie-young-david-buuck-and-christian-nagler-in-conversation/
Letters of Support
Read a letter from Adjuncts at Georgetown University who successfully organized and bargained for their first contract
dominican_college_adjuncts_letter_from_georgetown.pdf | |
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A letter of support from organizers at St Mary's College who are involved in a union drive of their own
letter_of_support_from_smc_union_oc.pdf | |
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A Letter of support from College of Marin
college_of_marin_letter_of_support.pdf | |
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