Organizing
Tools
Campus
Equity Week (CEW) is being planned so even our colleagues with little
or no organizing experience can add their energy and ideas to the
project. We have begun to collect here some tools that will help new
organizers and seasoned veterans. We hope you will contact the CEW
Central Coordinator, <storerchris@fhda.edu>,
if you have needs, questions, or suggestions for things to include
on this web site.
INDEX
AFT
CEW Toolkit - Flyers, Posters, Stickers, "Standards
of Good Practice" Document, etc. These materials have been
put together by the National to assist locals in their activities.
Check
them out!
Get
Ready for Campus Equity Week, Flyer (See)
- Download PDF
File
This
excellent ad will appear in the "Adjunct Advocate" Fall
edition. Print and copy for posting around your campus during
opening days of the Fall Semester/quarter. Add your local contact
information on the bottom.
This
is a good two page general document that can be copied back-to-back
and distributed at meetings or conferences, or to colleagues on
your campus or a neighboring campus. It tells people what CEW
is and how they can become involved, and includes general contact
information.
An
Open Letter to Members of the International Academic Community,
from Chris Storer, Central Coordinator for Campus Equity
Week, 2003. (See)
- Download PDF
File
This
letter should be sent to any contact with overseas faculty or
faculty organizers.
Recruiting
Organizational Support, (See)
- Download PDF
File
A model
letter with resolutions for organizational support of CEW. This
single page letter provides a basic model of a letter you can
edit and distribute at a union, academic senate, or professional
association business meeting, or mail to an organization's leadership,
to request formal support and financial assistance for CEW activities.
It is important that the central coordination of CEW and local
activities receive this support, both to strengthen CEW and
to provide the resources needed to expand awareness of Campus
Equity Week. Much of the power and effectiveness of CEW lies
in the coalitions we can build with existing organizations which
share our common interests in providing the highest quality
of higher education to our students.
This
is a basic single page resolution that can be edited used to expand
awareness of contingent academic labor issues and CEW activities
with a broad membership base at organizational conventions
Model
"Proclamations" from State Governors
This "Proclamation"
in support of part-time facult and Campus Equity Week 2001from
Oregon Governor John A. Kitzhaber was signed October
23rd, 2001, just before the week began. Click here for
the Oregon Proclamation.
Gary
Locke, governor of Washington state, also proclaimed
Oct. 29th to be Adjunct and Part-time Faculty Recognition Day
in honor of the work of part-time faculty in our colleges. See
the Washingto Proclamation.
This three
page discussion can be distributed at a general first organizing
meeting that will focus discussion on CEW planning, or can be
sent out with an agenda for such a meeting. It presents CEW
as a manageable task to new activists, while providing the basis
for brainstorming as energy develops and participants expand
the horizon of the possible.
This two
page outline can be printed back-to-back to be distributed at
a planning meeting. It can help get people on track. Throughout
your campaign, it can help keep you on-track. Successful organizing
is organized.
Bibliographies
This is an extensive bibliography
that is often being updated. Pankin notes in the Introduction
to the bibliography, "Material chosen for the bibliography
began publication in 1977, which was the year when Tuckman
and his associates began publishing their findings. The 1970s
was the period when the use of part-time faculty expanded
more rapidly than it had before or since. More recently, the
numbers of part-time faculty have begun to expand further,
especially in community colleges. Accompanying this development
has been the increasing use of adjunct non-tenure track faculty
in full-time positions. It is the purpose of this bibliography
to facilitate understanding of the meaning and implications
of this major change in the structure of higher education."
Bibliography,
from 2002 Dissertation, Joe Berry, Contingent Faculty in Higher
Education: An Organizing Strategy and Chicago Area Proposal
[This is a comprehensive bibliography of labor organizing
and contingent academic faculty]
[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. [Complete
Press Release] [Link
to the paper] ]
This is an extensive bibliography
that is often being updated. Pankin notes in the Introduction
to the bibliography, "Material chosen for the bibliography
began publication in 1977, which was the year when Tuckman and
his associates began publishing their findings. The 1970s was
the period when the use of part-time faculty expanded more rapidly
than it had before or since. More recently, the numbers of part-time
faculty have begun to expand further, especially in community
colleges. Accompanying this development has been the increasing
use of adjunct non-tenure track faculty in full-time positions.
It is the purpose of this bibliography to facilitate understanding
of the meaning and implications of this major change in the
structure of higher education."
Eileen Schell
and Paricia Lambert Stock, Moving a Mountain: Transorming
the Role of Contingent Faculty in Composition Studies and Higher
Education. NCTE, (2001).
Randy Martin,
ed., Chalk Lines: The Politics of Work in the Managed
University, Duke University Press, (1998).
CEW
Button Information - Image and ordering information.
FEW
Buttons - These Button designs from the Canadian
Association of University Teachers could be used by Campus Equity
Week as well as for the Canadian Fair Employment Week.
Cartoons
- Use these to create posters or in newsletters,
or expanded, to create banners.
(A2K - Action
2000, was the first broad based, grassroots, coalition effort
to raise awareness of contingent academic labor issues. It was
organized by a coalition of faculty organizations in the California
community colleges and developed actions on 85 of the CCC systems
107 campuses. The success of this initial campaign led to CEW
2001.)
An
Amazing Circus (Klos, from A2K) (See)
Full-Time
Activist (Klos, from A2K) (See)
It's
Alive (The Sleeping Giant Awakes) (Klos, from A2K) (See)
Misadventures
of A Freeway Flyer (Klos, from A2K) (See)
AFT CEW Toolkit
- Flyers, Posters, Stickers, "Standards of Good Practice"
Document, etc. These materials have been put together by the National
to assist locals in their activities.
Check
them out!
Canadian
Association of University Teachers (CAUT)
The Invisible Faculty (graphic
only pdf) [This
is great to print, copy in a reduced size, and use with your own
message. Give CAUT credit by including the acronym under the graphic.]
FEW - Fair Employment Week
- Invisible
Faculty Posters
Joe's
Dissertation - Tree-Saving
Edition. This is a Word version of the above, single-spaced
(1.2 MB)
Exploring
the Role of Contingent Instructional Staff in Undergraduate
Learning, New Directions for Higher Education
(Fall
2003, Jossey-Bass - Wiley in Canada)
[$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.]
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.]
Part-Time
Faculty in Higher Education Annotated Bibliography,
B. Pankin
This is an extensive bibliography
that is often being updated. Pankin notes in the Introduction
to the bibliography, "Material chosen for the bibliography
began publication in 1977, which was the year when Tuckman
and his associates began publishing their findings. The 1970s
was the period when the use of part-time faculty expanded
more rapidly than it had before or since. More recently, the
numbers of part-time faculty have begun to expand further,
especially in community colleges. Accompanying this development
has been the increasing use of adjunct non-tenure track faculty
in full-time positions. It is the purpose of this bibliography
to facilitate understanding of the meaning and implications
of this major change in the structure of higher education."
Who
Is Teaching In U.S. College Classrooms? A Collaborative Study
of Undergraduate Faculty, Fall 1999, The Coalition
on the Academic Workforce.
Standards
of Good Practice in Non-Tenured Faculty Employment
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)"
AAUP "Professional
Standards [for Non-tenure-track Faculty] - From The
Status of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty - an approved repport of
the American Association of University Professors - For the full
report, click
here.
AFT Standards
of Good Practice in the Employment of Part-time/Adjunct Faculty:
A Bllueprint for Raising Standards and Ensuring Financial and Professional
Equity (PDF
Download - 1.2 MB)
NEA 2002-2003
Resolution on "Part-time or Temporary Education Employees"
(F-49)
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