Contingent Faculty Committee
Committee on Contingent and Community College Faculty and Independent Scholars (CCCFIS)
This joint committee focuses on strengthening the collective voices of practitioners of labor history whose scholarship is not often provided material or collegial support by universities and colleges. The committee’s activities are especially focused on ways to more fully integrate the research and teaching contributions of contingent and community college faculty and independent scholars into LAWCHA and the history profession. It also encourages organizational support for advocacy campaigns to improve the working conditions for contingent and community college faculty and affordable institutional access for independent scholars.
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Here’s the November installment of The National Center E-Note, a monthly electronic newsletter containing research and analysis relevant to unionization and collective bargaining in higher education and the professions.
...The National Center E-Note is a monthly electronic newsletter containing research and analysis relevant to unionization and collective bargaining in higher education and the professions. View their October, 2016 newsletter.
...The September 2015 special issue of Working USA is dedicated to “Contingent Academic Labor: The Way Forward.” All of the articles in the volume focus on some aspect of the...
Claire Goldstene’s 2012 article, “The Politics of Contingent Academic Labor,” in the NEA journal Thought & Action, argues that the shift to a majority contingent faculty is not primarily about...
For the first time in its 40-year history, the union of full- and part-time faculty at City College of San Francisco recently went on strike—and it worked.
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What an irony it is that institutions of higher learning have become some of the worst exploiters of workers in America. Those of us who work in higher education have...