American colleges and universities commonly promote social justice through their departments, curricula, policies, hiring decisions, and campus events. A scroll through campus news, events, course offerings, and scholarly publications will show support for dismantling racism, abolishing prisons, and using government policy to create a living wage.
However, it is equally common for institutions of higher education to pay the majority of their professors poverty-level wages without benefits and to deny them access to career advancement. If universities want to promote social justice, they should start by paying their adjunct professors a living wage with benefits. Keep reading…
I think that one of the solutions is a national union for adjunct faculty. AFT has a two-tier system, which is, in a sense caste system. Full-time faculty decides about adjunct faculty. I’m looking for people who would like to organize a separate union. Are you interested? Let me know.
I think that one of the solutions is a national union for adjunct faculty. AFT has a two-tier system, which is, in a sense caste system. Full-time faculty decides about adjunct faculty. I’m looking for people who would like to organize a separate union. Are you interested? Let me know.