Some comic relief:
This is an example for San Diego students, and for students everywhere who are interested in social justice.
Reynaldo Muniz III at Student Assembly
Despite the reported opposition from New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo, the resolution supporting a $5,000 minimum starting salary per course for adjuncts was debated and passed April 4 by the statewide SUNY Student Assembly, which represents some 463,000 students.
The following report is by James DeArce, an adjunct teaching sociology at SUNY New Paltz, who is also a nursing student and Student Trustee Member of the Board of Trustees at SUNY Ulster County Community College:
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Dear Colleagues,
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Rebecca Schuman at Vitae:
Here’s my latest on Vitae–the second of four articles I’ve got coming out this week on the Internets! Ah! The Week of Peak Schuman!–which is about the one thing that everyone on the job market has in common, from the winners to the losers: REJECTION. Academia is full–full–of rejection, and the late-winter/early-spring rejection blahs can be really tough. I hope this helps! And yes, writing four pieces in one week is a challenge, in case anyone cares. And yes, the next two will be fun. SO much fun.
Colorado Bill HB 14-1154 The Community College Pay and Benefits Equity Act
This legislation is a great precedent for all states and a possible model for reworking AFT FACE to further ensure pay parity between tenured faculty and adjunct faculty. In California, similar legislation and the elimination of the 67% law, which only serves to make adjuncts freeway fliers and to help perpetuate the two-tiered system of academic apartheid, would transform the lives of tens of thousands of adjuncts.
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Sounds like a good idea for both adjuncts and full-timers.
Christian Pyle, an adjunct from the Bluegrass, offers a powerful testimony about the effects of adjunctification:
The Adjunct Crisis 