Just want to re-introduce myself since so many of you have responded to my posting an article about Texas going after #booksellers #bookstores in an effort to #ban #books. I’m here because I want to be on the record against #censorship, for #FirstAmendment #FreePress #FreeSpeech; for #academicfreedom and the rights of #adjuncts. So welcome and I hope you can put up w/occasional attempts at self-promotion. (I write and occasionally publish stuff.) Peace out.

If you want to improve #adjuncts' lives, pay them more. If you want to improve their teaching, give them office space, too.

State audit finds that CA community colleges hire too many poorly paid #adjuncts and misuse state funds intended to pay for full-time #faculty. https://edsource.org/2023/california-community-colleges-rely-too-much-on-part-time-faculty-and-misspend-funds-audit-finds/686030?

The Hamline controversy and the real threat to academic freedom
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/1/22/the-hamline-controversy-and-the-real-threat-to-academic-freedom
Xclnt analysis, Marxist in its insights (no idea whether author is self-identified as a Marxist). Note it's consistent with trends in US towards greater exploitation, greater austerity, for working people--including in academia. Capitalism makes us all poorer--save for the already very rich.
#Adjuncts #Academic #Poverty #JobInsecurity

https://youtu.be/lrN0NG67gno #adjuncts

An interesting piece that's making the rounds, developing some important points. It's about History but relevant to other fields. What's missing is discussion of the lack of solidarity TT profs often show towards adjuncts all the time, not just in strikes

https://contingentmagazine.org/2023/01/07/a-profession-if-you-can-keep-it/
#Education #Adjuncts #Meritocracy #Hierarchy #HigherEd

I remember reading #whitenoise in the day, in the last bit of the golden academic evening, before it all became petty #costcutting, exploited #adjuncts, and adminstrative CEOS. Baumbach's film is a history film - that academic world is as gone as anything is gone.

Academic workers deserve livable wages and fair working conditions, including multi-year contracts #Union #UnionStrong #Labor #Academia #AcademicWorkers #AcademicChatter #Adjuncts #ContingentFaculty #OneYearisNotaCareer #UCWArizona #CWA

Read: https://kjzz.org/content/1833192/asu-ua-workers-petition-schools-thriving-wages-better-job-security
Support: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/ucwaz-contingentfacultycampaign

Here is your weekly reminder that 70% of #college undergrad courses are taught by #adjuncts like me--with a B.S., an M.Ed., an M.S., and a Psy.D., plus over a quarter-century of clinical experience--for $17.63/hr with no benefits and no contract. No retirement, no health insurance, no raises, no bonuses, no possibility of promotion no matter how long we work or how well we do.

Here is your weekly reminder that 70% of #college undergrad courses are taught by #adjuncts like me--with a B.S., an M.Ed., an M.S., and a Psy.D., plus over a quarter-century of clinical experience--for $17.63/hr with no benefits and no contract. No retirement, no health insurance, no raises, no bonuses, no possibility of promotion no matter how long we work or how well we do.

Casual University Workers in Australia Are Escalating the Campaign Against #WageTheft

https://jacobin.com/2022/11/casuals-monash-university-australia-wage-theft-underpaid-workers/

#adjuncts #casuals #highered #unoins #labor

@freddytrannager Now talk about the extractive and abusive labor practice engaged in by almost every university in America, the wage slavery and benefits desert known as “adjunct faculty.”
#unionizeadjunctfaculty
#adjuncts

New School contingent faculty are on strike and The Illuminator project joined them on the picket line. What, indeed, would James Baldwin do?

#Baldwin #newschoool #ContingentFaculty #adjuncts #academicmastodon

#Adjuncts are the backbone of #HigherEd