Chronicle of Higher Education - Adjunct Activists Seek Equity on Campus

By John Gravois

Adjunct professors on campuses across the country made themselves known last week with an array of panels, speeches, and public displays of disaffection. The occasion was Campus Equity Week, an event organized to draw attention to the disparities between tenured and nontenured laborers in academe.

"Campus Equity Week is about highlighting a problem with the overuse and exploitation of about 500,000 college professors," said Keith Hoeller, a co-founder of the Washington Part-Time Faculty Association, in Seattle.

"It's hard to imagine such a group of educated professionals would form an exploited class. But they do."

At Green River Community College, in Auburn, Wash., organizers held a bake sale. On display were "full time" and "part time" cookies, of equal quality and made of the same ingredients. The only difference was that part-time cookies cost half as much.

United Academics, which represents faculty members at the University of Vermont, took out large mock help-wanted advertisements in several newspapers. In part the ads read: "Appointments are part-time, but substantial opportunities exist to teach 90-100% full-time schedules at 40% or less of full-time pay, with no health care, subsidized pension, or other benefits."

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Section: The Faculty
Volume 52, Issue 12, Page A13
 

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