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/
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.
- by Dan Jacoby
- October 30, 2017
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
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.
- by Bob Hutton
- October 19, 2017
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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.
- by Claire Goldstene
- October 10, 2017
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
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.
- by Joe Berry
- October 2, 2017
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Events
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.
- by Ryan Poe
- September 18, 2017
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
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.
- by Eric Fure-Slocum
- July 29, 2017
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
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.
- by William Herbert
- July 20, 2017
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OpEd
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.
- by Jennifer Klein
- May 29, 2017
Call for Proposals
Contingent Faculty Committee Blog
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.
- by Ryan Poe
- May 29, 2017