Updates
are coming in...visit the "ACTIONS"
page
CEW on the Radio, in
Multimedia
Call to Action
Start
planning for Campus Equity Week, a week of coordinated campus activities
designed to educate our campus communities, the public, and
policymakers, about contingent academic employment issues. Campus Equity
Week (CEW), often called Fair Employment Week (FEW), will be October 22
to 28 in Canada and October 29 to November 4, 2007, in the United States
and Mexico.
read
on
What is Campus Equity Week?
Campus Equity Week is
coalition among faculty organizers and organizations throughout higher
education. We are joined by a common focus on the increasing and
exploitative contingent employment practices in our colleges and
universities, and the problems deriving there from. Whether an
individual or organization's specific attention is on academic quality,
student access and success, public policy, fiscal support, working
conditions, benefits, or pay equity issues, we generally agree that what
has been termed "the corporatization of higher education" has led to a
continuous decline throughout the last half of the twentieth century,
and this following on a half century of unprecedented growth in all
measures of quality.
visit CEW 2005's home page
Washington State Governor
Proclaims "Adjunct and Part-time Faculty Recognition Day"
 Washington
governor, Christine Gregoire has proclaimed October 31, 2007,
"Adjunction and Part-time Faculty Recognition Day." The proclamation
recognizes that contingent faculty "teach close to 50 percent of the
classes and make up 66 percent of the teaching faculty" at two-year
colleges. It also recognizes that contingent faculty "bring a multitude
of talents, skills, and areas of expertise" to their teaching.
read the proclamation
Model Legislation &
Contingent Faculty
Contingent faculty campaigns take place
on several terrains including the legislative arena. Several online
resources are available. For an overview, see Keith Hoeller's "Equal
Rights Legislation for Adjunct Professors" in
The Adjunct Advocate. The
AFT maintains a state-by-state database,
FACE (Faculty and College Excellence), with "an emphasis on
legislation designed to improve the working conditions of contingent
faculty."
An E-mail List for Contingent
Faculty
The email list
adj-l has been a consistent platform for discussing issues impacting
contingent faculty. It is an open (unmoderated) list that promotes
constructive conversations.
sign up for
adj-l
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