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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.

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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

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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

News: Contingent Academics

This page lists the latest developments affecting contingent faculty in the weeks leading up to Campus Equity Week 2005. To add entries to this page, send an e-mail to Chris Storer with your story.

Faculty and Staff displaced by Hurricane Katrina can register at the Louisiana Board of Regents Displaced Faculty & Staff Registry.