Adjunct Action Contributes to House Committee Report on Contingent Faculty in Higher Education

justintimeprofessorAdjunct Action gathered and submitted adjunct faculty stories for a new House Committee on Education and Workforce report called “The Just-In Time Professor” about the conditions for contingent faculty in higher education. In addition to many testimonials from adjuncts about their profession, the report notes the Georgetown administration’s commendable behavior — remaining neutral and allowing adjunct faculty to vote to form their union free of interference — as well as Northeastern’s use of anti-union firm Jackson Lewis.

“I am fortunate because I have a faculty union. I am paid much more than most adjunct faculty, and I have the same benefits as tenured faculty-medical, dental, vision, retirement,” said one of the respondents.

Another one stated, “I work at [school] which is a better place than most for adjuncts thanks to a union contract that gives us access to health insurance and a minimal number of paid sick days.”

You can read the full report here.

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