Recent, Interesting Links
December, 2017, The Denver Post: (Hickenlooper's office predicts federal tax reform bill might generate in Colorado $196-$340 million in the next fiscal year)
December, 2017: Contingency, Exploitation, and Solidarity: Labor and Action in English Composition by Seth Kahn, William Lalicker, and Amy Lynch-Biniek
July 2017: Con Job: Stories of Adjunct and Contingent Labor (now also an eBook)
March 26, 2016: Just released: Starving the Beast: The Battle to Disrupt and Reform America's Public Universities
March 26, 2016: AAUP: New Title IX Report Shines Light on Present Uses
March 22, 2016: Huffpost: Supreme Court Hands A Victory to Workers Who Were Stiffed on Overtime Pay
March 2, 2016: Portside: Invisible Battlefields: A Call to Stand with Community Colleges on the Front Lines of Resistance
Feb. 16, 2016: Atlantic Monthly: Scalia's Death and the Consequences for the Unions: What Will Become of Public-Sector Unions Now?
Jan. 15, 2016: Westword magazine: Colorado community college profs seethe over low pay, lame raise
Jan. 11, 2015: The Denver Post: Colorado community colleges will sack out-of-state instructors
Dec. 18, 2015: Portside, Huffpost: Your employer can't stop you from recording conversations at work
Related article to Huffpost Dec. 18, 2015 piece, from Academe: Prevention of bullying on campus
Dec. 12, 2015: Rocky Mountain PBS: Adjuncts in the Colorado Community College System
Dec. 9, 2015: NPR "Here and Now:" Adjunct professor with awful commute creates community
Nov. 3, 2105: Inside Higher Ed: Graduate students teaching in the community colleges
Nov. 2, 2015: Inside Higher Ed: National survey sheds light on previously ignored adjunct faculty concerns
Oct. 27, 2015: Westword: Adams State president insists campus ban of critic not retaliation
Oct. 24, 2015: Brave New Films: Professors in Poverty
Oct. 6, 2015: Inside Higher Ed: Collision Mix
Sept. 15, 2015: The Atlantic: There is no excuse for how universities treat adjuncts
Aug. 17, 2015: Inside Higher Ed: Decoding Why the Amazon NYT Article Struck a Campus Nerve
Aug. 13, 2015: Inside Higher Ed: Tapping Wages for Training
Aug. 5, 2015: Aljazeera America: There is no such thing as free community college
July 28, 2015: Academe blog: Colorado Community College Faculty Fight for Equity
July 18, 2015: New York Times: Employee or Contractor? Labor Seeks to Clarify Rules
June 22, 2015: The Guardian: I am an adjunct professor who teaches five classes. I earn less than a pet-sitter
June 11, 2015: The Washington Post: Walker takes on higher education in Wisconsin
June 8, 2015: The Nation: How a right-wing political machine is dismantling higher education in North Carolina
April 17, 2015: Ft. Collins Coloradoan: CSU Shared Governance Process Misaligned
April 5, 2015: Occupation at Univ. of Amsterdam challenges the logic of market-driven education
April 4, 2015, NYT: The real reason tuition costs so much
March 8, 2015: Contingent Faculty Conference, Northern Ariz. Univ. April 22, 2015
Feb. 25, 2015: CSU Professors Rally for Adjunct Faculty
Feb. 25, 2015: Truthout.org: Underpaying Adjuncts Hurts Full-Time Professors and Students Too
Feb. 16, 2015: Wall Street Journal: Colleges' use of adjunct instructors comes under pressure
Feb. 9, 2015: IHE: Union sets "aspirational goal" ($15K/course) for adjunct pay (notes our SB 15-094)
Feb. 6, 2015: The Washington Post: Adjunct professors get poverty-level wages. Should their pay quintuple?
Jan. 26, 2015: Council for Higher Education Accreditation Conference Program: CHEA Annual Conference Program
Jan. 22, 2015: SF Bay All Day: Community colleges undo accreditation monopoly
Jan. 18, 2015: Chronicle of Higher Education: What's Missing from Obama's Free Community College Plan
Jan. 12, 2015: Inside Higher Education: Obama is joined by Republicans unveiling free community college plan
Jan. 12, 2015: Chronicle of Higher Education: Who has a stake in Obama's free community college plan?
Jan. 11, 2015: Obama plan would make community colleges nearly free for millions
Jan. 9, 2015: Inside Higher Education: Redefining Full-time Adjunct Work
Dec. 15, 2014: Union advocates applaud recent NLRB decisions -- insight relevant to faculty organizers from Aaron Nisenson, chief counsel for the AAUP
Dec. 11, 2014: An evaluation of course evaluations
Dec. 11, 2014: Evaluating student evaluations of professors
Nov. 14, 2014: More than 40 programs may be cut at Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks
Oct. 24, 2014: Note: CCCS annual membership dues for the six campuses (including FRCC) whose presidents are members of the AACC are $60K. Inside Higher Ed: Higher Ed Association Paydays
September, 2014: NPR: Student course evaluations get an "F"
July 29, 2014: AAUP Colo. Conf. Co-President Jonathan Rees argues why full-time faculty should help their part-time counterparts: You are not special
July 28, 2014: Will the majority of America's college teachers end their days living in aged vans and working low-wage jobs at campgrounds? Read the alarming report in the August 2014 issue of Harper's. Watch the video about Jessica Bruder's investigation: MSNBC: The End of Retirement
July 18, 2014: Dr. Larry Eson is appointed to the Steering Committee of the National Mobilization for Equity. Read his report: Meeting Summary
July 15, 2014: Common Core Standards Are the Tip of the Corporate Iceberg
July 11, 2014: There are surveys of adjunct faculty, and then there are surveys. Predictors of depression, stress, and anxiety among non-tenure track faculty
July 2, 2014: Adjunct faculty plight, video featured in PBS Bill Moyers & Co. Interview with Jim Hightower: Grass Roots Grow Against Greed
July 1, 2014 How a University's Attempt to Teach Unionizing Professors a Lesson Could Backfire, Big Time
June 26, 2014 Wealthy College Presidents May Be the Reason You're Broke
June 18, 2014 Bloated bureaucracy fuels escalating college tuition
April, 2014, NPR:
Community college programs can lead to big payoffs -- in the right fields
April, 2014: NPR:
Grading community colleges, 5 years into Obama improvement efforts
Jan. 2014: U.S. Congress: Adjunct Forum Report: The Just-in-Time Professor
Jan. 23, 2014 Colo. Joint Budget Committee ranks Colorado Community College System Financial strength highest in state, even higher than CU, CSU, etc. (see chart on page 23)
Jan., 2014: Psychology Today: Ending Academic Apartheid: Equity and Dignity for Adjunct Professors
The High Cost of Adjunct Labor: White Paper from city-wide adjunct organizing effort, Boston
Forbes: How successful companies hold on to their talent -- and why it's so important
College costs soar while adjunct faculty head to pauper's graves