precarious life & times

…guest post by Meg Feeley , originally posted to the  adj-l listserv , Contingent Academics Mailing List, October 23, 2014 Please consi...

…by Jack Longmate as  posted to   Contingent Academics Mailing List … & related trends.  First, take a look at this from the "pre...

…in CHE/IHE…in case you missed live #socialmedia coverage, multiple twitter streams, Facebook coverage, SEIU's outstanding CAL Conferenc...

…who do #adjuncts remember on   International Worker Memorial Day ? That day is today and  takes place annually around the world on April 28...

…posted this morning to @NewFacMajority's FB timeline … let's follow this, track it's progress, coordinate an even broade...

…No Way to Treat a Donor, commentary by Chessie Green Let’s throw a bone to the university for just a moment and view the adjunct as a...

… it was by all accounts, a glorious convention & weekend across the #adjunct/iverse.  William Pannapacker 's "dispatches from ...

…introducing #NewFac BoD member Alan Trevithick via his account of the incredible @SEIU500CAL #academiclabor Forum. Howzzat for multitaskin...

…see complete conference schedule here .  Caste and Classes  – linking our struggle for the rights of contingent faculty to the larger str...

Getting together. this? #Adjuncts are steadily building networks, using technology to improve communications and share information. Is t...

…  in brief & links. Edited for length (omitting extensive "see below" items), redundancy (previously appearing in another pos...

... links & news on  #COCALX in Mexico City, #ContingentFaculty & #HigherEd +  an appeal to  support the Chicago Teachers Union, AFT...

… but apparently not those of the contingent faculty that the eponymous  ProfStaff  analyzed and wrote up. Dated June 30, 2012, this article...

I work at three places, and belong to AFT-affiliate ( NYSUT ) locals at two of them. Do I lose interest in unions when I teach at ...

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Cross-posted at the Adjunct Project . Many of us have been suggesting for awhile now that, in order for adjuncts to continue gaining mome...

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Accordingly, Matt Williams writes,   I have created a  petition addressed to U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis  requesting that the DOL...

…and as often as necessary until you read it, stop preaching to the choir and find ways to share it with non-academic stakeholders... and ma...

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