Read and sign:

Know the Truth About How Faculty Working Conditions Affect Students

Here comes the revolution:

We’ve Reached Critical Mass: Temp Workers Take Back Higher Education.

Save Time by Skipping Comments on Student Papers

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:

Life in Adjunct America

How the Increasing Reliance on Contingent Workers in Academia Will Result in Revolution

Level the Playing Field for Underpaid Adjuncts

PBS continues its coverage:

We Are All Mary Faith

‘Parity” versus “Equity:” Why You Should Know the Diff, Bro

This post is a few years old, but its points out the importance of rhetoric, and is very current. As momentum builds for action on adjunct issues, we need to be careful what we ask for. We must define our language with precision. “Justice” is dollar parity. Equal pay is parity. This is justice. Aside from chairs, assistant chairs and a few program directors, tenured faculty at community colleges do not do more work than adjuncts. One I know teaches 17 hours a semester plus works much, much more for the general good. You want us to do work besides teach? Like what? Pay us equally, we’ll do it.

“Parity” versus “Equity”: Why You Should Know the Diff, Bro