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

Other Links

• Adjunct Nation
• Faculty Forward
• University Workers United for a Fair Future (UWUFF)
• Tenure for the Common Good
• New Faculty Majority