National Adjunct Walkout Day

On February 25, 2015 adjuncts across the country came together to raise awareness about adjuncts in higher education and insist on fair wages and better working conditions.

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About A is for Adjunct (WP blog)

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The tenure system at American colleges and universities is broken and is adversely affecting the lives of both teachers and students. The time to stand up for change has come. 

 It’s time for adjuncts and those who depend upon them to stand up against the top-down management style now employed by higher education administrations, time to remember that the focus of education should be students and the greater good. 

We’re setting Halloween of 2017 as a date for adjuncts to stand up and be heard.This is just a short excerpt for the about page

VanessaVaile's insight:

fyi this is a new adjunct blog, not the original "A is for Adjunct." We're thrilled to see new adjunct blogs appear, always hoping they will thrive. 

Is the name of this one a reminder to get active again? Maybe, but once again Scoop.it has cut formerly available features on free accounts -- among this round, no more rss.  

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#MLA16 Session 526: Contingent Faculty Members in Service (with image, tweets) · mbbrophy

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Session organized by MLA Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession

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Reporter's Notebook: SUNY #adjuncts make push for better pay - Oneonta Daily Star

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A petition calling for SUNY Oneonta administrators to double the starting salary of adjunct professors now has more than 750 signatures, an organizer said recently.

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Remembering #NAWD: Out of 100+ only 1 Willamette #adjunct protested publicly

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Adjuncts comprise 41% of Willamette’s faculty by Zane Sparling

Throwing rallies, teach-ins and sometimes marching out of the classroom, hundreds of part-time and temporary higher-education teachers participated in National Adjunct Walkout Day on February 25, 2015.

  The event was observed at Willamette, too, but the celebration was a lonely one. Professor Scott Vandehey was the only adjunct at Willamette to participate in National Adjunct Walkout Day.

  See on willamettecollegian.com

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#FreewayFliers for #CEW2015

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...is a documentary about higher education's best kept secret

  Freeway Fliers documents the growth of part-time (adjunct, contingent, associate, non-tenure track) faculty in America's colleges and universities, and the circumstances under which they work and contribute to the their students, our economy, and our society. 

  This film is the story of the unknown outsiders of higher education, and the prospects for change. 

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Campus Equity Week #CEW2015 at a SUNY campus near you

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Across the state, UUP chapters are hosting CEW activities such as informational tables, petition drives and community forums. Albany, Cortland, Fredonia, New Paltz, Oneonta, Oswego and Plattsburgh are among the chapters taking part in CEW events. Please contact specific chapters for more information.

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Who wants change? Who wants to change?

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The Educational Industrial Complex

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Dipti Desai is a professor of the arts and art education at New York University. She teaches both pre-service and in-service art teachers. As she watched what was happening in the world of education, she decided to create a graphic to illustrate the "Educational Industrial Complex." Readers may know that when President Dwight D. Eisenhower…

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Adjun'ct N'oise's Campus Equity Week M-F suggestions

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#afterNAWD Campus Equity Week seeks solutions for #adjunct faculty #CEW2015

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Campus Equity Week, Oct. 26-30, is all about educating students, parents and education advocates, who are shocked to discover that many part-time professors live below the poverty line due to wages that are a fraction of what full-time faculty earn. And it is about changing the paradigm of exploitation by circulating petitions and surveys, holding membership drives and crafting fair contracts that provide job security, higher wages and better working conditions so that adjuncts don't have to wait tables to make ends meet.

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NH Adjunct

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Contingent, also known as adjunct, faculty from New England are invited to join in the first unconference sponsored by the newly formed New England Contingents United—or NECUnited—Saturday,...

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Blog Action Day 2015 - Raise Your Voice Oct 16, 2015 | Raise Your Voice. Share Your Story. Join The Community

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"Blog Action Day is a community of bloggers who come together to have a global conversation about an important theme for one day. 

It’s easy and free to take part in Blog Action Day. Simply develop a post about our theme topic, publish it on October 16, share it with the Blog Action Day community and talk about the posts you like best on social media.

 Why we picked #RaiseYourVoice as our themeWe have the power to create the world we want to see when we raise our voice to promote positive change and expose unjust actions. However, those who speak out are often under attack. This Blog Action Day we will celebrate those heroes who raise their voice when faced with censorship, threats and even violence. We will raise our voices to defend their right to raise theirs. We will overcome silence with our words and actions. We will share their stories. We will fight for those whose voice has been silenced." See on blogactionday.org

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National Adjunct Labor Action (#nala)

Monday September 7th, 2015, is the day of the NATIONAL ADJUNCT LABOR ACTION.

This event is meant to build on the success of #nawd and move forward. Progress is being made, but adjuncts are still being targeted and exploited at the hands of a broken educational system. (above: Plight of the adjunct: image source)

The blog is here: http://adjunctlaboraction.blogspot.com/

The Twitter stream is here: https://twitter.com/adjunctlabor

The national support fund is being started here: https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/nala-support-fund

Email contact: [email protected].

We are the thing we have been waiting for. Organize a rally or event where you are. Tell us what you’re doing.

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Overview of #adjunct & other actions making the post #NAWD road…what’s yours?

…not just with a #walkout but by walking it…literally and figuratively. This is just a sampling of recent adjunct roads after NAWD...individual paths but all the same road

Adjunct Across America, is bicycling and posting updates to the campaign Facebook page. We’ll be publishing interviews here too. [Image from Know Your Glow blog]

On Labor Day, Kentucky adjunct and active NAWD participant Mick Parsons is reprising a national day of action, #NALA. He replied “cool” to an request to submit a post. I’m taking that as a promise, so watch for it. Until then, follow @adjunctlabor and the National Adjunct Labor Action blog

#WalkingMan Jesse Turner is walking from Connecticut to Washington D.C. for public education. He is a professor not an adjunct but walking the same road and now directs a literacy program to teach teachers. Many of the Public Education Network bloggers are or have been adjuncts. Their road, to preserve and defend K12 public education, feeds into ours.

...and there are more, many more to add, some we don’t even know about yet but will add them as we find out. What counts? Blogs, actions, activities, protests. groups, individual or group projects, art shows/installations, performances, new organizations, webpages, social media, articles, publications, projects... like Walkout Day, this is DIY. Your call. 

Please submit yours or ones you know about. Share your “road making” ideas too, http://nationaladjunct.tumblr.com

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States began to fly this symbol of racism and hate during the Civil Rights Era. 

Pin this on Pinterest. h/t Alex Smith

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after #NAWD, #socialjustice for all HT #feministingforchange:

The Confederate flag is a symbol of racism, betrayal, and hatred. Its very existence is based on the idea that an entire group of people should be seen as property, not human beings. South Carolina, the first state to secede from the Union, currently flies this flag over their state capitol. Governor Nikki Haley should immediately take down this flag and outwardly oppose racism and all of its symbols.

They still need more signatures!

PLEASE SIGN & BOOST!!!

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#NAWD salutes FL #adjunct: Hard-working & deserving of health coverage « @TB_Times

I am an #adjunct professor, and I am insulted.

…HT @sharynski

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…a cross-country campaign designed to raise awareness about the adjunctification of the American university.

@AdjunctAcrossAmerica describes his campaign: 

While crossing the country by bicycle and adjuncting online, I’ll be visiting over 35 cities to interview adjuncts, non-tenure track faculty, researchers, administrators, politicians, graduate students, and unionists about contingent labor. 

The trip is entirely self-supported and will be financed by teaching online at two colleges (that pay $2050 and $1350 per course, respectively). Along the way, I will save costs by stealth-camping (secretly camping in public or private areas) and cooking my own food, which is the only way such a campaign can be afforded on an adjunct wage. Phase I of this project is designed to conduct targeted interviews throughout the West in Summer 2015.  I am currently seeking interviews for Phase II of this project, where I will ride coast-to-coast in May-August 2016.

Contact page: http://www.adjunctacrossamerica.com/contact.html; email: [email protected]. And now some “bike across America” links ... and a video:

Bike Across America http://bikeacrossamerica.org/

YouTube Channel,       https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLoJF3zDDm5su4X0zEoyJNA

What to bring: http://bikeacrossamerica.org/trip-report/articles/what-to-bring.htm

Bikes in Bloom across America, http://veracityvoice.com/?p=15393

Biking Bis: Bicycle touring and more, http://www.bikingbis.com/

Article about “Take a Seat: Sharing a Ride Across America”  http://www.bikingbis.com/2011/10/20/take-a-seat-sharing-a-ride-across-america-bicycling-documentary-takes-awards/

Crazy Guy on a Bike, http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/