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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,.

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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

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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,”.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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/

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Everything Passes, Everything Changes: Unionization and Collective Bargaining in Higher Education

Collective bargaining and unionization in higher education has a long history. In 1936, Teachers Union Local 5 President Charles J. Hendley criticized a.

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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.

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