In the news
Here is a collection of links about adjunct and contingent professorships in the news. It's certainly not exhaustive, so feel free to suggest more!
2020
- AFT and AAUP Principles for Higher Education Response to COVID-19, AAUP
- Statement on Equity and COVID-19, Tenure for the Common Good
- Prominent Scholars Threaten to Boycott Colleges That Don’t Support Contingent Faculty During Pandemic, Chronicle
- COVID-19 shows how precarious the positions of contingent faculty actually are, Inside Higher Ed
2019
- How Penn State Improved Conditions for Adjuncts, Chronicle
- From Low Wage to No Wage, Chronicle
- Strikes at Colleges Are at a 7-Year High as Unions Rebound, Chronicle
- Contract Lengths of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Members, Fall 2017, Chronicle
2017
- Facing poverty, academics turn to sex work and sleeping in cars, The Guardian
- Are adjunct professors the new fast-food workers? Pacific Standard
2016
- More Faculty Diversity, Not on Tenure Track, Inside Higher Ed
- Where Are the Minority Professors? Chronicle
2015
- Someone Calculated How Many Adjunct Professors Are on Public Assistance, and the Number Is Startling, Slate
- O adjunt! My adjunct! The New Yorker
2014
- The Adjunct Revolt: How Poor Professors are Fighting Back, The Atlantic
- Professors in homeless shelters: It is time to talk seriously about adjuncts, Salon
- Without Tenure or a Home, New York Times
- Power in Numbers: Adjuncts turn to citywide unionizing as their best hope, Chronicle
- The Teaching Class, Guernica
- The New Old Labor Crisis, Slate
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