Media Coverage of Campus Equity Week
Campus Equity Week media coverage began with a piece in the
Chronicle of Higher Education and another one in Inside Higher
Ed. Three major US education organizations issued a joint press
release to mark CEW/FEW 2005.
read on...
Suffolk University - Adjuncts File for Union Recognition
The Suffolk Affiliated Faculty/AAUP,
a group of adjunct faculty at Suffolk
University, petitioned the National
Labor Relations Board yesterday to recognize the group as the
collective bargaining agent for nearly 450 adjunct faculty at the
institution. Adjunct faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences, the
New England School of Art and Design, and the Sawyer School of
Management would form a bargaining unit to negotiate with the university
administration about such issues as pay, benefits, and job security
read on
Report from Olympic College (WA)
This evening (Thursday, 11/3/05) at Olympic College in Bremerton, we
held a Campus Equity Week Legislative Forum. Four legislators, all
Democrats, attended. The audience was made up of three trustees, about a
dozen faculty, some full-time and part-time faculty, about the same
number of students, and the higher ed lobbiest of the State's NEA
chapter.
read
Jack Longmate's report and talk
Report from Connecticut
A broad range of activities mark Campus Equity Week in Connecticut.
These included a protest at the University of West Hartford and a
statement from the Central Connecticut State University welcoming Campus
Equity Week.
read
Flo Hatcher's report
Coalition of Contingent Academic Labour VII
Conference - August 10-13, 2006, Vancouver, BC
The COCAL VII conference
will take place August 10-13, 2006 at Simon Fraser University’s
Harbour Centre campus in the heart of downtown Vancouver.
What is COCAL?
The coalition of contingent academic labour is a floating
conference and a network of North American activists working to
improve higher education through collective achievement of job
security, livable wages, academic freedom and time and resources
for academic research and professional development for
contingent academic laborers. COCAL promotes grassroots
contingent faculty organizing through events like Campus Equity
Week but is not affiliated with any single labor union. To
achieve its aims, COCAL dedicates itself to learning about the
broader community about the trends to undermine the tenets of
higher education by staging media events, improving legislation
governing funding and so called accountability efforts, and
identifying colleagues at institutions and assisting them in
forming collective bargaining units and winning strong
contracts. Reclaiming the Ivory Tower
A new publication by Joe Berry, Reclaiming the Ivory Tower
(Monthly Review Press & NAFFE, 2005) traces the emergence of the new
majority faculty on US campuses. It provides a guide to action and
suggests a strategy forward.
Paul
Buhle, of Brown University and author-editor of
Encyclopedia of the American
Left,
Insurgent Images,
and other books, describes Joe's as "a vital
contribution to the most urgent subject on many a campus: the sudden
transformation of the teaching workforce, the degradation not only
of teachers but also of students and of society's gains from higher
education." He goes on to note that "[e]veryone who teaches, every humane administrator and
every alert student will want to read this book. It is even possible
that Reclaiming the Ivory Tower will light the fire for a
rebuilding of basic values of American education.”
Campus Equity Week participants may obtain discounted copies ,
discuss of the book, and organize author appearances and/or book release
events by visiting the book's new website:
www.ReclaimingtheIvoryTower.org.
Equality at El Chorro, CA
From the California Part-time Faculty Association's El Chorro
Listserv
Dear community college colleagues and friends,
It is curious to note that with a Master's Degree in French
literature of the 17th-19th centuries and 17 years of community college
teaching experience, I have finally reached the point where I make as
much per month, teaching a full load of 15 hours per week on three
campuses, as a regular entry level custodian. Of course, I don't have
the full benefits package, $100,000 life insurance or income protection
and I have to drive 400 miles per week to get to my various
campuses...but maybe some day my friends in the classroom and I will
make as much to teach in a class room as some fortunate people get to
clean them. Perhaps I aim too high...
David Milroy
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