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Documenting the Growing Role of Contingent Faculty
Mar 28, 2023
A new report shows the number of nonmedical graduate student workers has increased faster than part- or full-time faculty over the past two decades. It’s among the data now available online in what’s planned to be a regularly updated information resource.

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After Yearlong Wait, Bates Unionization Vote Fails
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Lacking Collective Bargaining Rights, but Organizing Anyway
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Contingent faculty, grad workers a growing part of colleges
March 28, 2023
A new report shows the number of nonmedical graduate student workers has increased faster than part- or full-time faculty over the past two decades. It’s among the data now available online in what’s planned to be a regularly updated information resource.
After yearlong wait, Bates College unionization vote fails
March 27, 2023
After over a year of waiting for the results of a union election that would have brought together non-tenure-track faculty and staff, union organizers heard the outcome. They lost.
Unions organizing in states that lack collective bargaining
March 1, 2023
Faculty and staff are forming unions even in states that lack collective bargaining rights for public sector workers. These recent actions are part of a long history.
Survey of adjuncts finds pandemic made their situation worse
February 24, 2022
Survey on adjunct faculty working conditions finds that COVID-19 made an already bad situation more dire.
Papers urge institutions to think about adjuncts, including in terms of retirement
June 23, 2021
New papers from TIAA Institute urge institutions to plan for adjuncts, including their retirement concerns, with equity in mind.
Unions at Point Park and City College San Francisco fight for ways to save faculty jobs
May 11, 2021
Faculty unions at Point Park University and City College of San Francisco have found different means to the same end: preserving full-time faculty jobs threatened during COVID-19.
NLRB ruling potentially limits which adjuncts can form unions
February 25, 2021
Trump-appointed labor board majority potentially limits which private-institution adjuncts can form unions, based on whether or not they have meaningful -- not majority -- involvement in faculty governance bodies.
Growing resistance against cuts at Ithaca
February 8, 2021
The college wants to cut 116 full-time positions from its non-tenure-track faculty ranks, but alumni, students and professors are putting up a fight.
New AAUP statement urges institutions not to treat their adjuncts as expendable
August 12, 2020
New AAUP statement urges institutions to treat their adjuncts as essential team members during the pandemic -- and after.
Faculty members in new coronavirus hot spots want a remote fall or delayed opening
July 31, 2020
Reopening plans in many new coronavirus hot spots were drafted before cases surged. Faculty members in those states want a do-over, in the form of an all-online fall or at least a delayed opening.

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