Contingent Magazine: History Is For Everyone
As an editor for Contingent Magazine, I love receiving a great pitch and thinking, “I want this.” Or when the editorial team—Erin Bartram,.
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
Learn more about the effect of the pandemic on contingent faculty
The LAWCHA Contingent Faculty Committee recommends these resources to learn more about the effect of the pandemic on contingent faculty: Claire Goldstene
- by Claire Goldstene
- March 3, 2021
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
Budget Activism: A Strategy To Address Contingency—and Tenure
For decades, austerity and financialization have impacted labor on public and private campuses. When administrators and boards structure budgets to enforce top-down fiscal “discipline,”.
- by Aimee Loiselle
- February 8, 2021
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
A New Deal For Higher Education–Campaign Kickoff February 10
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the long-standing crisis in higher education. Declining state support, the increased use of contingent appointments, the loss of.
- by Aimee Loiselle
- February 1, 2021
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
Events
Opportunity
OAH 2020 – Contingent Faculty Workshop, Reduced Registration Fee, and Travel Grants
Contingent faculty are encouraged to attend a workshop – “Non-Tenure Track Faculty on Teaching” – on April 2, 2020, 6-9pm, at the Organization.
- by Eric Fure-Slocum
- November 6, 2019
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
A Dirty Deal: Social Dirt and the Adjunct Predicament
Although I’ve taught at the same university continuously since 2007, I’m still considered “temporary” faculty: a kind of intellectual migrant, shifting every year.
- by Claire Raymond
- June 11, 2018
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
Supporting UK University Lecturers on Strike
Steven Parfitt, who spoke at LAWCHA’s Seattle conference, asks LAWCHA members to support the ongoing lecturers’ strike in the UK by contributing to.
- by Eric Fure-Slocum
- March 12, 2018
Activism
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Teaching Blog
Lecturers on Strike
University lecturers in the UK will walk off tomorrow in the largest-ever strike called in British higher education. Eric Fure-Slocumwp.stolaf.edu/history/people/fure-slocum-eric/
- by Eric Fure-Slocum
- February 26, 2018
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
Building Job Security into Community College Faculty Work: Experiences in British Columbia
In the Canadian province of British Columbia, aspects of how unionized faculty in community colleges have attempted to deal with faculty contingency since.
- by Frank Cosco
- November 6, 2017
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
Dave Jamieson, “The Ivy League Has An Unexpected Friend In Donald Trump”
Their graduate students are trying to unionize. The president may have already stopped them. Ryan Poewww.ryanmpoe.com/
- by Ryan Poe
- October 31, 2017