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by Date
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 [See]
[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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