75 percent of higher education faculty working on contingent contracts
Student debt totaling $1.4 trillion
Poverty level wages for campus workers and college graduates
Corporatized “reform” for college
Race and gender inequities in student access to higher ed and in academic labor
Join us to fight for quality and equality in higher education: organize local actions that advance our national campaign. Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged adjunct, CEW, CEW2013, contingent faculty, New Faculty Majority, NFM, No Child Left Behind, student debt
There is a confluence of adjunct advocacy in Washington, D.C. today. Here’s what’s happening:
Democratic Staff released its report on contingent faculty in higher education, “The Just-In-Time Professor,” the result of Rep. George Miller’s (D-Calif.) e-Forum that collected stories from 845 adjunct faculty in 41 states.In honor of Campus Equity Week 2013 Chicago adjuncts took to the streets with a hat tip to Brecht and agitprop theater in a piece called the “Hallelujah, I’m A Bum Flash Mob,” held Nov. 2 at The Horse.
Cast:
Accordion/vocals: Brianne Bolin (Chicago adjunct & activist)
Acting/vocals: Frank Ehrmann (Occupy Rogers Park)
Acting/vocals: John G. Bolin (Second City)
Campus Equity Week is not over, even when it’s over. Media releases and publicity regarding this year’s events and actions have prompted ongoing coverage of adjunct employment issues.
Here’s a taste:
Working Conditions, Nov. 5, 2013See a list of news, blog and website posts about Campus Equity Week 2013.
Faculty Working Conditions Headline Issues Affecting Quality of Higher Education, Oct. 22, 2013
Visit #CEW2013 reflections HT @USAS & others on the New Faculty Majority blog for a wrap-up of notes, events and thoughts.
United Students Against Sweatshops is supporting adjunct faculty across the country with the organization’s HALLO-WEEK OF ACTION!
Their actions included a flashmob at Northeastern University, where about a dozen students performed an adjunct version of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” on the library quad. They are members of the Empower Adjuncts Student Coalition.
USAS members also staged a Halloween-costumed sit-in outside the office of University of Texas President Bill Powers to protest outsourcing campus services and laying off up to 20 percent of the UT workforce.
Southwest #Adjuncts are invited to #Roadrunners Virtual #CEW2013 Meetup, Nov. 1, noon – 1 p.m. CT
States: Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas
Tenacious Texans, Necessary Magnificent New Mexicans, Amazing Arizonians 
and any other states who want to join us, too, be it the central south, the prairie states, the deep deep south: welcome one and all. Let’s talk about True Tall Texas Adjunct Tales, astounding Arkansas adjunct anecdotes, or even yes, nefarious, mincing missives from and about our very own New Mexico Adjuncts. And are there any from Oklahoma, you’re ok? Might the objective Okie Cats want to join & jam? Please revel in the fun and laughter and tears, as we celebrate #CEW2013. More info.
Welcome to the Adjunct Beverage Center. What size will fate hand you? The 3-ounce Adjunct? The 18- oz. TT? Or the half-gallon admin size? #cew2013 pic.twitter.com/zQArY50Bkv
You know what’s really scary? The pay inequality at Maryland community colleges!
A frightening Halloween jack-o-lantern.
Adjunct pay: Very spooky indeed!
The best Halloween treat of all: Campus Equity!
View and share a slide show on Campus Equity Week put together by NEA. 
Tagged #adjuncts, Campus Equity Week, CEW slide show, NEA
Montclair Adjunct Union Local 6025 Office Administrator & #Adjunct Prof extraordinaire sports a #CEW2013 t-shirt! Go Trish! pic.twitter.com/KgnXeWQpvN
The University of Arkansas in Fayetteville held an open forum discussion about the corporatization of academia after watching “For Profit.” They also held a drawing for “Fight For Your Long Day,” was won by Jeannie Waller.
Alan Trevithick at Westchester Community College in Valhalla, NY.
David Wilder, co-chair of the organizing committee of the Ohio Part-Time Faculty Association, staffs a CEW table at Cuyahoga Community College, West campus, in Parma, Ohio.
MT @prof_squires: the captain & I are wearing RED
Thanks CCSF @AFT2121 for speaking out.
Advocates from around the state met in Columbus for an Ohio Higher Education Campus Equity Week Summit.
Information table for Campus Equity Week
@Grace Goswick: Unarmed Education Mercenary wearing red and reporting for #adjunct duty. #cew2013
Students telling students about the injustice and misallocation of resources represented by the misuse and abuse of contingent labor at the University of Cincinnati. — with Kate Beltramo and Dylan Forster.
OCAAUP President John McNay working with student allies Kate Beltramo and Dylan Forster at the University of Cincinnati.
@cwru English grad students support #Campusequity pic.twitter.com/f4gZy2osuO
For more Campus Equity Week photos and graphics, visit this Pinterest board.
Wear red Wednesday, Oct. 30, to support adjunct faculty and Campus Equity 
Week. Take a photo of yourself with a poster stating your cause. Post it on social media, such as Facebook and Twitter. Use the hashtags #cew2013 and #CampusEquity.
Posted in Action, Social Media
Tagged Campus Equity Week, CEW2013, Scarlet A, wear red for adjuncts
