Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Washington State Adjunct Activist Dr. Keith Hoeller's Editorial Published in New York Times, November 12, 2013

Washington State Adjunct Activist Dr. Keith Hoeller's Editorial Published in New York Times, November 12, 2013

"While the tenure-track faculty have comparatively high wages, great benefits and lifetime job security in the form of tenure, one million contingent professors have none of these things, often teaching for decades for poverty-level wages, and wondering whether they will even have a job next quarter.  "
KEITH HOELLER
Seattle, Nov. 11, 2013
The writer is the editor of the forthcoming book “Equality for Contingent Faculty: Overcoming the Two-Tier System.”

 For replies to this editorial, see

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/opinion/sunday/sunday-dialogue-academias-two-tracks.html?pagewanted=3&_r=0

Dr. Hoeller's reply includes this closing statement:

"It is not surprising to see the two-track system defended by those who profit from it the most. But as the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education, even a “separate but equal” system is inherently unequal. It cannot be reformed; it must be abolished."

New York Times Describes Adjunct Faculty Turning to Service Employees International Union, December 04, 2013

"...a movement catching on across American campuses where adjunct faculty members, the working poor of academia, are turning to collective action." Service Employees International Union

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/04/us/more-college-adjuncts-see-strength-in-union-numbers.html?emc=eta1&_r=0
"A version of this article appears in print on December 4, 2013, on page A18 of the New York edition with the headline: More College Adjuncts See Strength in Union Numbers."