Chronicle Story on Metro Organizing Strategy

There’s a new article in The Chronicle of Higher Education today about Adjunct Action/SEIU’s metro-organizing strategy, focusing on the efforts of adjunct faculty who are organizing across the Boston-metro area.

“The thinking behind the approach holds that sufficient union saturation of a given local labor market will not only produce big gains at unionized colleges, but put nonunionized ones under pressure to treat adjuncts better, too. Those colleges might be prompted to improve pay or working conditions to be able to compete for talent or, in …

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Webinar for Adjuncts with Student Debt on April 11

Adjunct Action has partnered with the Department of Education to offer you a webinar on student loan repayment plans, loan forgiveness, and the best strategies for paying back your loans. The webinar will be held on April 11th from 2 to 3 p.m. EST.

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Howard University, Maryland Institute College of Art Adjuncts File for Union Elections

On March 7th, adjunct faculty at Howard University in Washington, D.C. and the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore filed for a union election and to join the SEIU Local 500 Coalition of Academic Labor. It’s another step forward in the movement to form adjunct faculty unions across America.

The news follows up a huge victory for Lesley University adjuncts in Boston who voted 84 percent to join SEIU/Adjunct Action. In the past two weeks, contingent faculty at Seattle University have also …

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Lesley University Adjunct Faculty Vote to Form Union, Join Colleagues at Tufts in Adjunct Action/SEIU

Joining part-time lecturers at Tufts University, Lesley University adjunct faculty have resoundingly voted to join SEIU.

Adjuncts teaching across Lesley’s four campuses stood together and overwhelmingly supported a union on campus by voting 359 to 67 to join SEIU. The votes for the all-mail ballot election were counted at the Boston office of the National Labor Relations Board on Monday.

The win reflects an 84 percent vote in favor of forming a union – a landslide victory for adjuncts, and the entire Lesley community.

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So You Want to Be an Adjunct Art Therapy Professor

So You Want to Be an Adjunct Art Therapy Professor

Cathy Malchiodi’s article originally appeared in Psychology Today. For the original article, click here.

Many of my colleagues are art therapy professors at colleges and universities. But the majority of these colleagues make up the massive group collectively known as art therapy “adjunct professors.” Most teach because they enjoy the interaction with graduate students and an academic community; some do it for the extra money (more on that later on); and others do it to class up their CV and get library privileges they may otherwise not have …

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Lesley University Union Election Date Set

Lesley adjunct instructors now have an election date for their adjunct union election. Ballots will go out on January 31 and are due back to the National Labor Relations Board NLRB by February 21. The vote count is scheduled for February 24th.

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