Campus Equity Week Media Coverage

For additional reporting on CEW activities, see our "Plans & Actions" page.

The News Tribune (Tacoma, WA), 11/20/05 - Treat Part-time Faculty Fairly

Why on Earth would a national movement emerge to call attention to the exploitation of college professors?

After all, everyone knows that professors are high-paid professionals who teach only a couple of classes a quarter, have summers free, enjoy paid sabbaticals and have lifetime job security in the form of tenure.

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Daily Free Press (BU, MA), 11/18/05 - Part-time Profs Demand Equal Pay, Benefits

Part-time university faculty members, both nationally and at Boston University, have been demanding equality in compensation and benefits, saying they feel exploited by the administrations at their institutions. '

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Vermont Cynic (UVM, VT), 11/15/05 - Faculty Press Conference

Kicking off Campus Equity Week, the UVM Student Labor Action Project, the Community College of Vermont Faculty Federation, and United Academics, among other organizations held a joint press conference in order to discuss the way in which part-time higher education faculty members are being treated in Vermont.

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Chronicle of Higher Education, 11/11/05 - Adjunct Activists Seek Equity on Campus

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.

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Bremerton Patriot (Olympic College, WA), 11/10/05 - Legislators Discuss Pay Ineqities at OC

Four Washington state legislators met on Thursday night with a small group of Olympic College students and faculty to hear their concerns about perceived pay inequities at the school. While they promised to push the cause forward in the 2006 Legislative session, the prevailing message was that they needed to directly plead their own case.

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Talon Marks (Cerritos  Community College, CA), 11/09/05 - Harvey Speaks on Faculty Rights

Part-time faculty members organized their first series of events during the International Campus Equity week on Monday to express frustrations and concerns with the ongoing negotiations of the contract for the Cerritos College Faculty Federation.

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Talon Marks (Cerritos  Community College, CA), 11/09/05 - CCFF Holds Equity Week

"Equal pay for equal work" was the most repeated phrase at last Wednesday's Cerritos College Faculty Federation (CCFF) Campus Equity Week event.

Campus Equity Week is an event hosted in many colleges to bring awareness to faculty and students regarding the state of part-time faculty treatment, and how this differs from full-time faculty.

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The Chronicle (Duke, NC), 11/08/05 - Duke Officials Tout Tenure Plan

As part of Campus Equity Week, professors at universities across the country held protests to raise awareness about their posts as contingent faculty members.

CEW, which took place last week, is a national annual event that aims to inform the public about the disparities in employment practices for tenured and non-tenured professors.

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College Papers that Ran the AFT Press Release

• The Citadel, The Brigadier
• Eastern Oklahoma State University, The Eastern Statesman
• Jacksonville State University, The Chanticleer
• Manhattan College, The Quadrangle
• Sacred Heart University, The Spectrum
• Santa Barbara City College, The Channels
• University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, The Daily Spectator
• West Chester University, The Quad
• Virginia Commonwealth University, The Commonwealth Times

St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO), 11/06/05 - Adjunct Faculty at SCC Raise Concerns

As an adjunct instructor at St. Charles Community College, Bridget Hurd said she is exploited.

She said she enjoys her job, but feels she receives low pay, no benefits and little representation on campus. Because of this she said she feels taken advantage of by the school, the state and, sometimes, the students.

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Mustang Daily (Cal Poly), 11/04/05 - Day of the Lecturer celebrates Fair Employment Week

The California Faculty Association (CFA) held a rally Thursday on Dexter Lawn to commemorate the "Day of the Lecturer," part of California Polytechnic's "Fair Employment Week" activities.

The rally called attention to Cal Poly lecturers, who do not receive tenure and have less job security than professors.

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Daily Tarheel (UNC), 11/04/05 - Campus Equity Week Promotes Tenure, Benefits for Professors

Faculty activists nationwide will close Campus Equity Week today, promoting the goal of increasing salaries and benefits for part-time faculty and combating a drop in the number of tenured professors.

Tenured positions have been declining for 30 years, but the process recently has accelerated, said Gwendolyn Bradley, staff to the committee on contingent faculty and the profession for the American Association of University Professors.

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Times-Union (Albany-NY), 11/02/05 - College Part-timers Pushing for Better Deal

Adjunct professors have a wish list: They'd like raises, a chance at promotion, more benefits and guaranteed academic freedom. They're taking their case nationwide until Saturday with something called Campus Equity Week.

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Daily Targum (Rutgers), 11/02/05 - Faculty Question Their Job Security

When Gary Brill was granted early retirement from his job at Bell Labs in New Jersey and came to the University three and a half years ago, he wanted nothing more than to teach.

"I set out with great enthusiasm to be one of the best teachers my students ever had," said Brill, a psychology instructor.

But now - in his fourth year as a fulltime non-tenured-track instructor - Brill faces losing his job at the end of the academic year.

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Vermont Cynic, 11/01/05 - United Academics and Administration Negotiations Continue

In recent news, United Academics, the full-time teachers union at UVM, has been negotiating with the administration to create changes in their faculty contracts. The negotiations have been occurring throughout October and those that have been most recent have been concerned with intellectual property rights: the ownership of things such

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KSDK (St. Louis, MO), 11/1/05 - Union Says Part-Time Teachers Taken Advantage of in College

KSDK-A teachers' union says part-time community college instructors are being "exploited," and are being short-changed in pay and benefits.

The Missouri Federation of Teachers and School Related Personnel alleges unfair practices across the USA and Tuesday took aim at one of the states' fastest growing institutions.

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Home News Tribune (New Brunswick, NJ), 11/01/05 - Lecturers Seek Equity, Job Security

RUTGERS — She teaches dozens of students each semester, but Amy Bahruth considers herself part of Rutgers' "invisible faculty."

As a part-time lecturer in the Labor Studies Department, Bahruth leads two major introductory classes but doesn't get a say in departmental meetings or input in university policies. She's held the part-time job since 1997 but, like most other part-time lecturers, doesn't have her health insurance covered by the university.

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AFT Media Release, 10/31/05 - AFT's College Adjunct Faculty Members Stage Protests Seeking Fair Pay and Fair Play Across the Country

This week (Oct. 31 – Nov. 4), a coalition that includes the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the American Association of University Professors, the National Education Association and other organizations that represent college faculty is holding rallies and demonstrations calling for fair pay and benefits for college and university part-time faculty members.

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Chronicle of Higher Education, 10/31/05 - Faculty Groups Draw Attention to Plight of Adjunct Professors With 'Campus Equity Week' Events

Adjunct professors on campuses across the country are making themselves known this week with an array of panels, speeches, and public displays of disaffection. The occasion is Campus Equity Week, an event organized by groups like the American Federation of Teachers, the American Association of University Professors, and the National Education Association to draw attention to the disparities between tenured and nontenured laborers in the academy.

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Inside Higher Ed, 10/31/05 - Help Wanted: Low-Cost Adjuncts

“Appointments are part-time, but substantial opportunities exist to teach 90 to 100 percent full-time schedules at 40 percent or less of full-time pay, with no health care, subsidized pension or other benefits,” according to classified employment ads that are scheduled to run this week in Vermont’s Times-Argus, Burlington Free Press and Rutland Herald.

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AAUP Media Release, 10/31/05 - Only 35 percent of U.S. professors are now tenured or on tenure track

Washington, D.C.—Faculty activists across the U.S. will don costumes, participate in hearings on contingent faculty rights, give awards to adjunct faculty, and host screenings of the film Degrees of Shame October 31 to November 4 as part of Campus Equity Week, which highlights the increasingly exploitative employment practices of U.S. colleges and universities and the threat these practices pose to the quality of higher education.

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Faculty and Staff Federation of CCP, 10/29/05 - Six Philadelphia Area Higher Ed Faculty Unions Sponsor Address by Author/Activist Joe Berry

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Chicago-based author and activist Joe Berry will speak at Community College of Philadelphia on Friday, October 28, 2005, as area higher education faculties observe Campus Equity Week. The event will be held in the college's Bonnell Teaching Center on Friday, October 28, noon - 1:30 p.m.

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Santa Cruz Sentinel, 10/29/05 - Pay for Cabrillo Part-time Teachers Among Lowest in State

Before Kimberly Arzate was married, she was a single mother raising a child with a disability and working two part-time jobs to make a living as a college Spanish instructor.

"Freeway jockey was my way of life for a very long time," Arzate said, referring to a term used for people who drive back and forth between jobs.

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The Journal (Webster University), 10/27/05 - Campus Equity Week Calls Attention to Adjunct Faculty

Exploitation of faculty, protecting the profession of teaching and academic freedom are some of the topics that will be covered during Webster's Campus Equity Week, Oct. 31 through Nov. 4. Campus Equity Week is a national event hosted by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP).

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California Faculty, Fall 2005 - Nationwide Week of Education on the Status of Lecturers and the Attack on the Academic Community

During the week Oct. 31-Nov. 6, CFA Lecturer Representatives, CFA Lecturers Councils, and Lecturer activists will coordinate with CFA campus executive boards to walk precincts and make phone calls on campus and in collaboration with local Labor Councils. Campus education efforts will include tabling with election materials, public forums, and classroom presentations.

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