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September, 2003

Yale Strike Over - 9/19/2003 [See]

Community Colleges Put More Dollars Than They Cost in Public Pockets [See]

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. [More] [Link to the paper]

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]

August, 2003

Mainichi Daily News
August 18, 2003, Monday
SECTION: Page 8; DOMESTIC
LENGTH: 453 words
HEADLINE: Japan's part-time lecturers getting raw deal
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July, 2003

[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.]

June, 2003

Report on International Conference Against War and in Defense of Public Education: Paris, June 14-15, 2003 (Open World Conference in Defense of Trade Union Independence & Democratic Rights)

"Liberal Education and Social Responsibility" (AAUP Plenary Talk, 6/11-15/2003), Jane Buck, AAUP President (Download PDF Version)

May, 2003

"The University Must Listen to Lecturers' Concerns" (5/5/03, Michigan Daily), Staff Editorial

"Eggheads Unite" (May 4, 2003,New York Times), Daniel Duane

April, 2003

"Campus Equity Week: Contingent Faculty Make News" from "Workplace: a Journal for Academic Labor," Spring 2003, Joe Berry

March, 2003

"Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society" Spring 2003 - Editor: Immanuel Ness, Brooklyn College, CUNY (iness@igc.org); (Six new articles on contingent academic labor organizing. If your institution's library does not subscribe to this journal, you should ask them to. The link is to the journal's info-site.)

"Position Paper on Equitable Treatment for Part-time, Adjunct, and Contingent Faculty" (March 2003), Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL).

February, 2003

"AT EMERSON, PART-TIME FACULTY LEADS FIGHT: 2 Years After Unionizing Adjuncts Still Seek Pact," Copyright 2003 Globe Newspaper Company, The Boston Globe, February 2, 2003, Sunday, 3rd Edition

By Jenna Russell, Globe Staff

 

 

 

October, 2002

Time for a New Deal for Contingent Academic Labor: A Report on the Conference on Contingent Academic Labor V held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Oct. 4-6, 2002"

By: Ann Larson

"Contingent Labor Meets"

By Vinnie Tirelli; Brooklyn College

April, 2001

Spotlight on Adjunct Concerns at Legislative Hearing," (PSC Clarion in April 2001), "It’s the largest group I’ve seen in 24 years,” said Ed Sullivan, chair of the New York State Assembly’s Higher Education Committee, as he looked at the crowd of 150 people who packed a legislative hearing on adjunct issues on March 9. "

 

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