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New
Directions for Higher Education
"Exploring
the Role of Contingent Instructional Staff in Undergraduate Learning"
Published
Fall 2003 by Jossey-Bass ($29.00 - Click here
for details, the Index,
and a pdf
the Editor's 12 page Introduction.). This collection
of articles contains much of the most current data and analysis available
regarding the use of contingent academic labor in higher education and
its impact on student education. Ernie Benjamin, the editor of this
special edition will aid faculty non-subscribers who are interested
in obtaining a print copy of the issue to purchase one at a discounted
rate by contacting him at ebenjamin@aaup.org.
AAUP
Adopts New Policy Statement on Contingent Faculty
"Contingent
Appointments and the Academic Profession"
Press
Release
Emerson
College CEW Activities
While
Salary rates have been agreed to and implemented, negotiations for a
first contract continue to be locked as the administration
seeks a broad no-strike clause, reduced pay for small courses,
and agency fee status. [More]
Education
International Conference in Senegal
Passes Resolution in Support of CEW
During Campus Equity Week
The
Resolution was offered by the American Federation of Teachers with the
support of the National Education Association, the American Association
of University Professors, the Canadian Association of University Teachers,
and the Fédération Québécoise des Professeures
et Professeurs d'université.
(See
the Resolution)
CFA
Organizes CEW Activities on All 23 Campuses of
The California
State University System
Planning
for COCAL VI, Chicago
is well under way!
The
planning committee expects to be able to offer some optional activities
(tours, etc.) of interest on Thurs., Aug. 5 and Monday, August 9
You are encouraged to bring spouses/partners/families
and make the trip partially a vacation.
There is lots to do in Chicago in the summertime.
Expect a first draft program out for comment soon,
but do mark the dates in red, Fri.-Sun., August 6-8, 2004.
AFT
1493 - San Mateo Community College District
The
Advocate
Special
Campus Equity Week Edition
Sonoma
State University Lecturers Report
Successful
CEW from United Faculty Effort
Contingent
Faculty Essays
to be Published in the "Laney Tower"
CEW
at the Peralta Community College District
Oakland, California
Report
from "The
Day"
CEW
at The University Connecticut - Avery Point
Report
from Concordia University
FEW
Activities
in Quebec, Canada
Report
from the
"News-Times"
CEW
at Western Connecticut State College
From
The Tufts Daily - 10/27/03
"Part-time faculty deserve a fair deal"
by Reem Assil
"According
to the American Association of University Professors, 43 percent of
all faculty are part-time, and non-tenure-track positions account
for over half of all faculty appointments in American higher education.
The growth of part-time faculty has often come at the cost of stable
employment for those who seek full-time careers. ... On Oct. 29, Emerson
College Part-time faculty will be holding a demonstration at 4pm in
downtown Boston at the corner of Boylston and Tremont as part of a
series of events for Campus Equity Week, a US & Canada-wide week
of action by faculty organizers and organizations throughout higher
education." [Link
to the complete article]
US
House of Representatives Considers
Resolution Recognizing Campus Equity Week
Rep. Dale
Kildee (D-Mich), encouraged by the American Federation of Teachers,
introduced a concurrent resolution into the US Congress last week in
support of Higher Education Faculty and Campus Equity Week
(H.
CON. RES. 312-html)
[PDF
of the Congressional Document - 24KB]
All
faculty should contact their Representatives and Senators to encourage
their support of
H. CON. RES. 312. This is a great opportunity to help raise the awareness
of the federal legislature about contingent faculty issues and the real
consequences of increasing underfunding of higher education.
AFT
Press Release
A
New Report Introduced at San Francisco Press Conference
"The
Growth of Full-Time Non tenure-Track Faculty"
Soon to be available at http://www.aft.org/higher_ed/
AFT
CEW Planning Across the United States
Santa
Cruz Sentinel
Part-time
Cabrillo instructors seek better pay, benefits
CEW Coverage at Cabrillo College
Becky
Cooper put together this Power Point slide show for the Olympic College
opening CEW event, a concert with speakers during the middle.
Throughout the event, we had a these slides projected in the background.
Once you open the file, the slides advance automatically every 30 seconds,
if anyone would like to adapt it for their use.
(I
found that the Escape key turns it off. The
Page Down key will advance from slide to slide.)
Power Point Download
(534KB PPS File)
October
29th, 2003
Major
Boston Area Demonstration to Support
Emerson
Contingent Faculty Negotiations
Broad
support from faculty in the region is expected.
AAUP
Press Release, Oct. 24, 2003
Washington
Grants Bargaining Rights to Higher Ed Temps
Press
Release
from
David West
Center for a Changing Workforce
Seattle, WA
The
University of Calgary
Alberta,
Canada
Special
Edition Newsletter
(584KB pdf)
"The
Muse"
The
Student Newspaper of Memorial University
Saint
Johns, Newfoundland, Canada
Prints
FEW Article by Tony Chadwick, Faculty Union President
Contractuals
unite!
AAUP
Press Release 10/23/2003
The
North Bay Labor Council
Resolves
Support of Campus Equity Week
See
Oct. 22 Resolution
The
Executive Board of
Illinois
Teachers of English to Speakers
of Other Languages and Bilingual Education
Vote
to Endorse Campus Equity Week
University
Teachers Union
National Union of General Workers
Tokyo South Branch
and
Union
of University Part-Time Lecturers - Tokyo
Join
in Solidarity with Campus
Equity Week and
Fair
Employment Week (Solidarity
Statement)
Emerson
College Part-time Faculty Union
Calls
for Assistance
We
are hoping to make this one of the most noteworthy CEW events ever.
It is also crucial to the part-time union at Emerson. If you have
friends or colleagues in the Boston area, please ask them to attend.
Its Wednesday, October, 29 4pm in downtown Boston at the corner of Boylston
and Tremont.
Details.
Flyer 1 (pdf)
Flyer 2 (pdf)
“Making
Teamwork Work”
Theme
of 2003 AAUP Governance Conference
October
9 through 11, 2003
See
Press Release
Campus
Equity Week Supporters
Take CEW Support Resolution to the
Education International Conference in Senegal
During Campus Equity Week
The
Resolution will be offered by the American Federation of Teachers with
the support of the National Education Association, the American Association
of University Professors, the Canadian Association of University Teachers,
and the Fédération Québécoise des Professeures
et Professeurs d'université.
(See
the Resolution)
Long
Island Post Campus Strike Over
PROFESSORS
AND ADMINISTRATORS at Long Island University's C.W. Post campus have
reached a contract agreement, ending a strike that began on September
8 and affected about 25 percent of classes.
--> SEE http://chronicle.com/daily/2003/09/2003092904n.htm
Yale
Strike Over!
Unions
gain wage, pension increases in new 8-year pact
Mary E. O'Leary, Register Topics Editor, 09/19/2003
NEW
HAVEN - Promising cooperation over confrontation, Yale and
its unions announced a tentative contract Thursday that nearly doubles
pensions and boosts salaries over the life of an eight-year pact.
(More)
Resolution
Passed by the
San
Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council
"SUPPORT
OF CAMPUS EQUITY WEEK October 27-31, 2003"
Community
Colleges Put More Dollars Than They Cost in Public Pockets
A
groundbreaking economic model has found that each taxpayer dollar invested
in a community college yields $3.00 in benefits back to the taxpayers
that support it, according to the Association of Community College Trustees
(ACCT) that released the results of a new study during a national conference
in Denver. (More)
URI
GRADUATE ASSISTANTS WIN FIRST CONTRACT
On
September 23, 2003, the Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education ratified
the first graduate assistants’ contract in the State of Rhode
Island. The membership of Graduate Assistants United (GAU), the AAUP
chapter that represents the 600 graduate assistants at the University
of Rhode Island, had voted in favor on the contract on September 18,
2003. The contract begins on September 1, 2003 and will terminate on
August 31, 2004.
(More!)
AFT
Opens New CEW Page
The
American federation of Teachers has opened a new CEW page on their website.
There is a great collection of materials put together by the National
to help locals with their CEW activities. Take
a look!
NEA
Adds Contingent Faculty Page
To NEA/Higher ED Webpage
The
National Education Association has opened a new contingent faculty page
on their website providing access to a fine collection of articles discussing
issues related to non-tenure track faculty. Go
there!
Long
Island University Faculty
at
Brooklyn Campus, Strike
Settled
at
Post Campus, Strike
Continues
FEW
- Fair Employment Week
Canadian
Association of University Teachers'
"Invisible Faculty" Buttons (pdf),
Posters,
and Graphics (pdf)
"Colleges
Caught In a Vise"
by
Stanley Fish - NY
Times Op Ed
[A
great response to the House Education Committee attacks on Higher Ed.
Fish makes the logic simple and clear.]
NEW
CAMPUS EQUITY WEEK BUTTONS
Now
Available!
Ordering
Information and Sample
AAUP Places CEW
AD in The Almanac Issue of
The Chronical of Higher Education
(See
Photo)
Mass
March & Rally
Stop Yale Attack on Workers’ Wages, Security, Dignity!
Saturday Sept. 13th
12:00 to 4:00 PM in New Haven, CT [More]
New
York Times Article on
NYU
President's plans to upgrade teaching undergraduates.
But
a reader
thinks his plans miss the point.
Plan
makes some professors "more equal than others."
Press
Release 9/8/2003 - AAUP Issues Draft,
"Statement
of Policy on Contingent Faculty Appointments and the Academic Profession"
Washington,
D.C.— The American Association of University Professors today
issued a draft policy statement,Contingent Appointments and the Academic
Profession. The statement addresses the overuse and abuse of part-time
and non-tenure-track faculty that threaten the quality and stability
of higher education today. [Complete
Press Release] [Link
to the paper] [A
new 2003 statement from the AAUP. This is a draft for membership comment.
After discussion, it is expected that a new AAUP policy statement on
contingent academic labor will be presented to the membership. All concerned
members of the profession should read this paper and give their feedback
to the organization. Chris]
Long
Island University Faculty Begin Strike
at Brooklyn Campus
Plans are to Expand the Strike to the Post Campus
at Brookville, Long Island [Newsday
Link]
[Long Island University
Faculty Federation Link]
The
House Republicans Rip Into Colleges in Scathing Report on
College-Cost 'Crisis'
By JEFFREY SELINGO
Washington
The rising cost of a higher education has spawned a "crisis,"
according to a report scheduled to be released today by Congressional
Republicans. The document contains a blistering attack on colleges for
blaming a recent surge in tuition rates on state budget cuts and tough
economic times. [More]
[This
arrticle hits the high points of this important issue and gives links
to excellent current research data available form the Chronicle of
Higher Ed. I note that data from the most recent California Postsecondary
Education Commission Fiscal Profiles shows that, at least
for California's four-year institutions, during the 37 years from
1965 to 2002, the constant dollar cost per student has remained essentially
the same with small variations corresponding to recessionary influences.
During this same period, it is true that the costs of student fees
have roughly doubled in constant dollars, but the share of costs born
by the state has been reduced by 30-50% more than the fee increases.
Clearly the federal perspective must look more closely at the data
before they start placing blame. Chris Storer]
4000
Yale Workers Continue Strike into Second Week
As Faculty Move Classes off Campus
Link
to the Strike's Home Page
"Merit
Pay" Presentation
[An
excelent argument and analysis with good research and useful references.]
This
is a "Power
Point presentation" by faculty of Fairfield University:
Paul Caster, Accounting Department, member of the Committee on Conference
Nancy Dallavalle, Religious Studies Department, Chair of the Committee
on Conference
Phil Lane, Economics Department, member of the Committee on Conference
George Lang, Mathematics Department, member of the Committee on Conference
Irene Mulvey, Mathematics Department, Chair of the Faculty Salary
Committee
Kathy Nantz, Economics Department and General Faculty Secretary
Cheryl Tromley, Management Department, expert on organizational psychology
Professional
Staff Congress - City University of New York (PSC-CUNY)
Executive Council - CEW
SUPPORT RESOLUTION
Submitted by PSC Delegate Assembly Part Time Personnel Committee to
Executive Council -Sept 5, 2003 & SO APPROVED. It will be submitted
to the Delegate Assembly on Sept 25.
Union
Organizers to Air Complaints Against Yale
The
New York Times - By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
September
3, 2003
The group seeking to unionize graduate students at Yale [CGEU] announced
yesterday that a former labor secretary and a former general counsel
of the National Labor Relations Board would serve on a committee investigating
whether Yale administrators or professors broke the law while fighting
the unionization drive. [More]
Oregon
State graduate assistants win full health benefits
thanks to AFT - OregonAF
from
Jillian Kemp of AFT-Oregon. Her e-mail is <JillianK@AFT-Oregon.org>
Mainichi
Daily News; August 18, 2003, Monday
SECTION: Page 8; DOMESTIC
HEADLINE: Japan's
part-time lecturers getting raw deal
The Organization
of American Historians Releases New statement
on
Standards
for Part-time and Adjunct Faculty
"At
their respective semiannual meetings, the OAH Executive Board (3-6 April
2003) and the AHA Council (3-4 May 2003) endorsed the following five
standards recommended by the joint AHA-OAH Committee on Part-time and
Adjunct Employment. (More)"
Wednesday, August 13, 2003; Blue
Collar Ph.D. - "Does anyone
in academe wonder what happens to Ph.D.'s who don't become an assistant
professor at Midwestern Research University or at one of its lesser
competitors?" By
CHRIS CUMO
[Jack Longmate comments on "Adjunct Mailing
List" <adj-l@lyris.gc.cuny.edu> (to subscribe,
send a blank email to
<adj-l-request@listserv.gc.cuny.edu>
with no subject line and only "SUBSCRIBE ADJ-L firstname lastname
<emailaddress>" in the body of the message) "Among
the things Chris touches on is the class aspect of the contingent
faculty issue. There is an element of elitism present, with full-time
tenured faculty, awarded their jobs as the result of nation-wide searches
conducted by the hiring committee, tending to discredit part-time, adjunct
faculty who, by contrast, would seem to have been hired off the street.
This tendency to see part-time and adjunct faculty as lesser individuals,
I'm afraid to say, may be as significant the availability of funds,
or indeed, may be at the very heart of why in the United States there
aren't the public funds for pro-rata pay, as adjuncts are simply
not seen as worthy as our dignified, cream-of-the-crop full-time,
tenured faculty".]
From
The Chronicle of
Higher Education
Links:
Using the Internet for contingent faculty organizing
by John Hess
[A great annotated collection of web links for contiingent
faculty. An introductory pathfinder for contingent faculty who are just
discovering their exploitation and want to do something about it.]
From
Jump Cut: A
Review of Contemporary Media
The
Invisible Adjunct
"From the margins of academe:
Occasional thoughts on higher education, campus politics, the use
and abuse of adjunct faculty, the academic "job market,"
and various other absurdities.
By an invisible adjunct assistant professor of history."
(This
blog has some excellent analysis/discussion and links to various articles
about contingent faculty issues.)
The New Edition of Workplace, July 2003, Is Available
Online
A journal for Academic Labor: Take
a Look
Report
from the
International Conference Against War and in
Defense of Public Education
Paris, June 14-15, 2003
Participants
from Algeria, Benin, Togo, the United States, Mexico, Peru, Brazil,
Argentina, Ukraine, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany,
France and Switzerland exchanged information about their experiences
in the struggle against the lethal attacks on the public education systems
throughout the world.
There
is word out that the Bush Admiinistration plans to make higher education
a focal issue for the 2004 election. However, The plan is to blame the
institutions for high tuition and reduced access, demanding more accountability.
"... President Bush would accuse colleges of closing
the doors of higher education to students from low- and middle-income
families, by making it unaffordable. The president would also reprimand
colleges for allowing too many students -- especially low-income
and minority students -- to drop out and remain without the skills
and knowledge they need. In addition, he would question the quality
of education that most students receive." (more)
Bush's
Next Target? Stephan Burd
Chronical
of Higher Education -- 7/11/03
Mon,
23 Jun 2000 - Email to "Adjunct Mailing List" <adj-l@lyris.gc.cuny.edu>
From: "Jack Longmate" <jacklongmate@silverlink.net>
"Some
good news to report about health care from Washington state for part-timers."
(More)
Go
To
Winter
and Spring 2003
CEW
NewsBytes
Campus
Equity Week is a flexible campaign, designed so anyone can take part
- whether you're an individual on a campus, a local union or association,
or a national group.
More...
About
CEW
A
coalition of Unions and
Professional Associations has established a CEW Steering Committee with
Regional and Campus
Contacts with the goal of facilitating your activities on your local
campus.
Support
Campus Equity Week
Organizations
are encouraged to formally support CEW. The list of Coalition
Members includes organizations that have passed resolutions of support
under "Organizational Endorsements."
Those that are helping to fund CEW coordination are listed as "Sponsor
Organizations."
Help
recruit organizational support
Notify
Chris Storer of support at <storer@fhda.edu>.
Checks
should be made out to "Campus Equity Week"
and mailed to:
Suren
Moodliar, Co-coordinator
North American Alliance for Fair Employment
33 Harrison Ave, 3rd flr, Boston, MA 02111
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