Updates in brief and links
Joe Berry issuing report card to Chicago college
[COLORADO] tops today's list
- Colorado House legalizes enforceable contracts for adjuncts
- Editorial supporting new adjunct legislation in CO
[NORTH ATLANTIC]
- Boston College adjunct let go over his criticism of Church for failure to ordain women
- Unionization bill (for contingent faculty) pulled from Maryland Legislature (AFT Maryland accused of back door deal)
- More on American University since the successful election
- CA legislature consider new rules for for-profit vocational schools
- University of Oregon faculty takes steps toward unionizing
- Replacing FTTT profs with adjuncts makes story in Washington Monthly
- CA Fed of Teachers, AFT responds to criticisms of its proposed Millionaires' Tax (on incomes over $1,000,000 per year) by CA Teachers Assoc., NEA [CTA has endorsed Governor Brown's alternative tax measure which includes a regressive sales tax increase]
[THE REST OF US]
- Nashville, TN campus workers rally for union protections
- Bill halts unionization efforts for Michigan Research Assistants, Michigan Lawyers Weekly
- New law bans student researchers from unionizing, Zdnet
- Colorado House legalizes enforceable contracts for adjuncts
- Editorial supporting new adjunct legislation in CO
[Around the ADJUNCTIVERSE]
- Your kid's college professor might be on Medicaid
- "We Have a Dream" Speech by Anne Weingard, President, NFM Foundation at January 28 Summit in DC.
- Some interesting ideas for the movement, open the books, Scapegoating faculty for high tuition,
Playing the workers against the customers. Just lovely. Apparently, Walmart management tactics have finally hit higher ed. hard. The only way to fight that is to do what Walter Reuther tried to do to General Motors in 1945 and demand that they open the books. Every last one of them.
- New faculty salary survey by higher ed HR association still leaves out contingents.
- LinkedIn on adjunct jobs ~ fastest growing listing for job titles but what does it really mean?
[INSIDE THE IVORY SILO]
- College presidents still white men and even older now with more coming from "nontraditional backgrounds" [code for business execs who hardly ever taught a class?]
- American Council on Education, college and university administrators, annual meeting: shared governance and the loneliness of college presidents
[NON-ACADEMIC]
- A remembrance of the PATCO strike in the form of book reviews. Worth a glance at least.
- Union Communication Services - great source for a regular newsletter, free subscription, mail order book store, etc. of all things union. A great educational resource. Also on Facebook and Twitter, @UCSBigLabor
- Urgent action call to stop execution of Iranian faculty union leader
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