Adjunct Faculty As The Solution To Economic Challenges

Over the past twenty years, colleges have become "multi-tiered workplaces" in which a select cadre of older, tenured academics enjoy job security and benefits while undercompensated adjuncts, teaching assistants and-- increasingly--undergraduates do the majority of instructional work. The New Faculty Majority, which is slated to launch by the start of the next academic year, will not be a national union, though organizers said it will support local adjunct unionization efforts. Organizers said that adjunct faculty on some campuses are disinclined to consider unionizing and that national advocacy thus requires flexibility in their approach. Read more at:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090413/arana