Lecturer Organizing and COVID-19
The public health and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have exacerbated the problems with America’s two-tier system of college teaching. Because most
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Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
Convert Lines or Convert People?: The Polarizing Debate Over How to Restore Faculty Tenure
On January 12, 2017, faculty unions representing community and technical college faculty across Washington state got their allies in the Washington state legislature
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
The Decline of Faculty Tenure: Less From an Oversupply of PhDs, & More from the Systematic De-Valuation of PhD as a Prereq for College Teaching
Contrary to what most journalists and many academics argue, an “oversupply” of people with PhDs is not the primary cause of the decline
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Teaching Blog
Decline of Tenure for Higher Education Faculty: An Introduction
For most college and university instructors in the United States today, teaching provides neither the job security nor income typically associated with middle
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Was Herbert Hill, NAACP’s Labor Secretary, an FBI informer?
Was Herbert Hill–the Labor Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for 25 years known for his fierce