National Adjunct Walkout Day

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The tenure system at American colleges and universities is broken and is adversely affecting the lives of both teachers and students. The time to stand up for change has come. 

 It’s time for adjuncts and those who depend upon them to stand up against the top-down management style now employed by higher education administrations, time to remember that the focus of education should be students and the greater good. 

We’re setting Halloween of 2017 as a date for adjuncts to stand up and be heard.This is just a short excerpt for the about page

VanessaVaile's insight:

fyi this is a new adjunct blog, not the original "A is for Adjunct." We're thrilled to see new adjunct blogs appear, always hoping they will thrive. 

Is the name of this one a reminder to get active again? Maybe, but once again Scoop.it has cut formerly available features on free accounts -- among this round, no more rss.  

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Session organized by MLA Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession

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A petition calling for SUNY Oneonta administrators to double the starting salary of adjunct professors now has more than 750 signatures, an organizer said recently.

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Adjuncts comprise 41% of Willamette’s faculty by Zane Sparling

Throwing rallies, teach-ins and sometimes marching out of the classroom, hundreds of part-time and temporary higher-education teachers participated in National Adjunct Walkout Day on February 25, 2015.

  The event was observed at Willamette, too, but the celebration was a lonely one. Professor Scott Vandehey was the only adjunct at Willamette to participate in National Adjunct Walkout Day.

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...is a documentary about higher education's best kept secret

  Freeway Fliers documents the growth of part-time (adjunct, contingent, associate, non-tenure track) faculty in America's colleges and universities, and the circumstances under which they work and contribute to the their students, our economy, and our society. 

  This film is the story of the unknown outsiders of higher education, and the prospects for change. 

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Across the state, UUP chapters are hosting CEW activities such as informational tables, petition drives and community forums. Albany, Cortland, Fredonia, New Paltz, Oneonta, Oswego and Plattsburgh are among the chapters taking part in CEW events. Please contact specific chapters for more information.

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Dipti Desai is a professor of the arts and art education at New York University. She teaches both pre-service and in-service art teachers. As she watched what was happening in the world of education, she decided to create a graphic to illustrate the "Educational Industrial Complex." Readers may know that when President Dwight D. Eisenhower…

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Campus Equity Week, Oct. 26-30, is all about educating students, parents and education advocates, who are shocked to discover that many part-time professors live below the poverty line due to wages that are a fraction of what full-time faculty earn. And it is about changing the paradigm of exploitation by circulating petitions and surveys, holding membership drives and crafting fair contracts that provide job security, higher wages and better working conditions so that adjuncts don't have to wait tables to make ends meet.

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Contingent, also known as adjunct, faculty from New England are invited to join in the first unconference sponsored by the newly formed New England Contingents United—or NECUnited—Saturday,...

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"Blog Action Day is a community of bloggers who come together to have a global conversation about an important theme for one day. 

It’s easy and free to take part in Blog Action Day. Simply develop a post about our theme topic, publish it on October 16, share it with the Blog Action Day community and talk about the posts you like best on social media.

Monday September 7th, 2015, is the day of the NATIONAL ADJUNCT LABOR ACTION.

This event is meant to build on the success of #nawd and move forward. Progress is being made, but adjuncts are still being targeted and exploited at the hands of a broken educational system. (above: Plight of the adjunct: image source)

The blog is here: http://adjunctlaboraction.blogspot.com/

The Twitter stream is here: https://twitter.com/adjunctlabor

The national support fund is being started here: https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/nala-support-fund

Email contact: [email protected].

…not just with a #walkout but by walking it…literally and figuratively. This is just a sampling of recent adjunct roads after NAWD...individual paths but all the same road

Adjunct Across America, is bicycling and posting updates to the campaign Facebook page. We’ll be publishing interviews here too. [Image from Know Your Glow blog]

On Labor Day, Kentucky adjunct and active NAWD participant Mick Parsons is reprising a national day of action, #NALA. He replied “cool” to an request to submit a post. I’m taking that as a promise, so watch for it. Until then, follow @adjunctlabor and the National Adjunct Labor Action blog

@AdjunctAcrossAmerica describes his campaign: 

While crossing the country by bicycle and adjuncting online, I’ll be visiting over 35 cities to interview adjuncts, non-tenure track faculty, researchers, administrators, politicians, graduate students, and unionists about contingent labor. 

The trip is entirely self-supported and will be financed by teaching online at two colleges (that pay $2050 and $1350 per course, respectively). Along the way, I will save costs by stealth-camping (secretly camping in public or private areas) and cooking my own food, which is the only way such a campaign can be afforded on an adjunct wage. Phase I of this project is designed to conduct targeted interviews throughout the West in Summer 2015.  I am currently seeking interviews for Phase II of this project, where I will ride coast-to-coast in May-August 2016.