New Faculty Majority News Today

By looking at the labor history of academia, you can see the roots of a crisis in higher education that has been decades in the making.

A compilation of recent College of Psychology and Liberal Arts faculty presentations and publications

They are key contributors to student educational success, yet relatively few receive adequate professional development, write Anna Conway and Thomas J. Tobin. Some college and university adjunct instructors are fresh out of graduate studies, confident that teaching college students will be their career, while others come onto the teaching path after working in industry. Rebecca (we’ve changed her name to protect her privacy) was the latter. An attorney who had argued cases in Milwaukee and Chi...

Colleges have certainly changed the way they pay their professors. HowStuffWorks Now looks at six questionable labor practices.

Plus, Washington State will consider a trust fund for Medicaid babies.

From the New School to museums and book publishers, we’re witnessing the black-turtleneck-worker uprising.

Companies like Chegg promise academics little and deliver less.

Survey on adjunct faculty working conditions finds that COVID-19 made an already bad situation more dire.

Whatever gains the striking union at Columbia University wins will be looked to as a model by other campus efforts.

  I owe a debt of thanks to George T. Karnezis, who made a sage observation in response to my review of Derek Bok’s Higher Expectations: if colleges and universities are serious about lower-division instruction, why do they relegate the responsibility for fostering the qualities and capacities Bok insists demand attention largely to instructors outside the tenure system -- to adjunct, part-time and contingent faculty, as well as lecturers, professors of the practice, visiting scholars, post...