precarious life & times

…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...

…the SEIU Local 500 Coalition of Academic Labor Forum  is Free & Open to the Public. REGISTER TODAY ~ RIGHT NOW   The SEIU ...

  I will be teaching at four schools this semester ( 2 private 4 year institutions, 1 state 4 year university, and 1 two-year community ...

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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...

SOMETIMES I THINK NOBODY GETS IT At my community college we have a relatively new upper administration. The President is just finishin...

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…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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Check & click new  Petitions Feature . Are you shopping an adjunct or higher  ed petition? Email link to  vanessa.vaile@newfacultymajor...

A little story: one that occurs to me as I wait high above a rather nice golf course,  Eagle Crest , waiting for the start of a weekend po...

.. Check out new features,  Petition Junction and Conference Corner . Are you shopping an adjunct or higher ed petition? Got a conference ...

We're who but not the only ones; now what about who else and 'what'? The University of Sydney , cited below, gives an overview i...

.. More this time because it's a twofer plus, e.g. two updates in one plus extra petitions for new Petitions Feature . Are you shoppin...

 = adjuncts and other precarious academic knowledge workers, also Dissident Voice article, "Cutting to the Bone on College Campuses th...

Among candidates in the "Naming Games" (a periodic event among adjunct/ NTT/ contingent faculty), precariat and variants on it kee...

A giant step forward for #ContingentFaculty everywhere ,  HB 1144 passed the Senate, now awaits expected signing. The good news story we...

 in brief, with links A great quote  " Capitalism teaches the people the moral conceptions of cannibalism are the strong devourin...