Con Jobs: Stories of Adjunct and Contingent Labor
This is awesome work. It is time to act. It is time to occupy higher education. It is time to unionize and for unions to prioritize the plight of the majority faculty, the precarious, and expose the dirty little secret of higher education. We, the precarious faculty, are the core of higher education. We make it happen. Our interests should be first.
The whole documentary here:
Two Adjuncts Discuss Their Career Realities
More good work from J. Fruscione.
First Year Commodity: The Adjunct Professor Labor Crisis In Composition Departments
This post, from Order of Education, is a couple of years old, but, as a summative critique and report of the recent national movement for adjunct justice, it is excellent. It offers a some insight into what adjuncts have been doing across the country, especially in affiliation with New Faculty Majority. Although the viewpoint is from composition, the insights apply, needless to say, across disciplines.
When, oh when, will I get rid of the “female chip on my shoulder” and stop being such a goddamned anti-racist feminist–you know, someone who believes women & PoC are people, and worse yet, acknowledges structural bias (some of which has quite recognizably aided me in my life)?!?!?!?
My latest column on Slate is about how in the corporatized, adjunctified university, nobody knows what to call their instructors anymore, and so it’s important for said instructors to spell it out and be patient when they forget (and, also, to make sure the disrespectful know when they are being disrespectful, intentionally or not).
I, personally, prefer “Dr. Schuman” in most contexts (I didn’t spend 7 years in Evil Graduate School for nothing), but “Rebecca” if the institution has a first-name policy (such as the Pierre Laclede Honors College!). If a student calls me “Rebecca” off the bat, that doesn’t actually bother…
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A nice infographic:
Adjuncts, Assumptions Activism
And again.
Increasingly, it seems the appeal is being made to tenured to stand up for adjuncts. In my union local, and at my campus, there is an attitude that adjuncts need to step up more. I agree with that. But, until tenured begin prioritizing adjunct issues, until they begin seeing adjunct issues as tenured issues, tenure will continue to die. It is dying. We must band together, as the Unarmed Education Mercenary points out, all parties, and refuse to accept any excuses. In solidarity we can demand and attain justice. If we can’t figure out how to resist, higher education is doomed.
The Unarmed Education Mercenary strikes again.
This is a great essay about the heartbreaking experience most adjuncts face.
Equity Bill Can Fix Community College System
Colorado is setting a good example.
The Adjunct Crisis 
