Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog

Contingency and The Runaway Academic Apprentice: How Craft Union History Can Inform Attempts to Reverse the Decline of Faculty Tenure

The rise of contingent or precarious contracts within academic markets is the latest manifestation of the regulatory failures that bedevil delicately balanced apprenticeship.

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One Big Orange Union: Faculty-Staff Organizing in a Right to Work State

Unions exist in Tennessee, but they are hindered by the hostility of not just management but also by state government.

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The Politics of Teaching

Always, on the first day of class when I taught the introductory United States history survey, whether as a graduate student or later.

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The ‘Golden Age’ is Over: Time to Fight for the Future

I am very glad to have been asked to contribute to this blog. The world of contingency, especially in the history and labor.

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Online Registration Open for Higher Education Labor-Management Conference

The National Center is pleased to announce that online registration has begun for a higher education labor-management conference on December 1-2, 2017 at.

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Terminated contingent faculty member at Barnard: updates and call

Members of the contingent faculty committee wrote recently to the president of Barnard College, both applauding the successful contract with the newly organized.

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Organizing the Academy: Strategies and Structures

Legal history and labor law concepts are essential tools for analyzing structures of unionization and collective bargaining, and in developing effective strategies. Reductionism.

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Podcast with Jen Klein: Fighting for graduate student unions at Yale

A group of Yale graduate students are protesting their labor conditions as teachers. They are demanding the administration recognize them as a union.

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Call for Proposals: 45th Annual Conference for the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions

The National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions, Hunter College, City University of New York, invites.

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Solidarity Statement for Yale Graduate Students

Yale continues to evade its legal responsibility to bargain with the legally certified union representing graduate teachers at Yale. Since April 25, the.

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