Adjuncts at Champlain, St. Michael’s and Burlington College are joining adjuncts nationally in building a movement to win work with dignity. We recognize there is a crisis in higher ed: in 1960 75% of all faculty nationally were full-time and tenured. Today the opposite is true: 72% of all academics are adjuncts, unsure whether they will receive courses in subsequent semesters, enduring poverty wages, lacking access to healthcare, regularly passed over for full-time positions, without office space inside the institutions they teach to prepare for class or meet with students.
As our elections get underway, in order to assess our own needs, concerns and priorities, we are conducting this bargaining survey. The input of as many adjunct faculty as possible is essential to determining our bargaining priorities after we form a union. Your responses to the survey will be confidential. Fill out the survey here.
Hundreds of students, alums, politicians, and community supporters from across Vermont have signed a petition supporting the adjunct faculty at Champlain, Burlington, and St. Michael’s colleges as the work to form a union. Sign in support now.
