What We’re DoingAdjunct faculty are caught up in this crisis in higher education. Our precarious positions, low levels of compensation, lack of benefits, lack of institutional support for research and scholarship, and our exclusion from the governance of our institutions limit our academic freedom and endanger our profession.
Yet, as part-time faculty, we are the majority of all teaching faculty at most colleges and universities. Unless we take action, the trend toward a marginalized adjunct faculty will continue unabated.
We have the power to do something about this situation. We are joining our efforts with other adjunct faculty in New York State and a larger nationwide movement to reform higher education and reclaim our profession.
To learn more about the campaign, please contact Chris Machanoff at 585-880-3345 or at [email protected].
11/7 A strong majority of adjuncts at Herkimer College have asked the college administration to recognize their union, but the administration is dragging their feet. Support the adjuncts and demand their union be recognized without any further delay by signing this petition.
10/14 Support contingent faculty in the capital region who are reforming higher ed by forming unions – sign the petition!
9/22 College of Saint Rose adjuncts vote overwhelmingly to join Adjunct Action/SEIU! Read more from the Albany Times Union and the Troy Record.
9/5: St. Rose adjuncts are voting to form their union. Listen to a story from WAMC, and watch a piece from Time Warner Cable News.
8/11: St. Rose adjuncts file for their union election. Read about it in the Albany Times Union, the Troy Record, and the Albany Business Review.
7/23: Let adjuncts at The College of Saint Rose know you have their backs: sign the petition to show your support for contingent faculty as they form their union.
7/16: Adjuncts at The College of Saint Rose find support in their community from the Mayor of Albany, the City Council, the County Legislature, the County Executive, a State Assembly Member and a State Senator, community group Citizen Action, Catholic Scholars for Worker Justice, the faculty union UUP, and the Capital District Area Labor Federation.
6/10: Marist College adjuncts are coming together for a voice on campus and to raise standards in higher education. Read their stories here.
4/29: Marist College adjunct faculty have filed for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board. Read more here.
Sign a petition in support of adjunct faculty at Marist college as they join together to form a union. Click here to sign.
2/6/14 Higher Ed Faculty Staffing in the Hudson Valley: By the Numbers.
2/3/14 New York NOW — Part-Time Professors Demand Higher Pay; Will Colleges Listen? NPR reporter Claudio Sanchez reports on “cheap labor” on college campuses as a congressional report says the shift to contingent labor has “created a lot of tension on campus.”
