The Adjunctification of Higher Education

Adrianna Kezar, Tom DePaola, and Daniel T. Scott, The Gig Academy: Mapping Labor in the Neoliberal University, Johns Hopkins University Press, (2019)

Jacob Richman, “Adjuncts in Higher Education,” Terminal Value Podcast (2020) “The state of higher education is changing dramatically. The ‘adjunct’ role in teaching classes is becoming an item of necessity for Universities to stay cost competitive. Unfortunately, the rate of pay for many adjuncts is extremely low. Doug and Jacob explore the situation and impacts to the broader health of higher education.”

News About Adjuncts

https://www.chronicle.com/article/now-yes-now-is-the-time-for-contingent-faculty-to-organize/

https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2021/05/student-debt-crisis-americas-higher-ed-system-professors-tenure-adjunct-princeton

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/10/31/departmental-study-columbia-college-suggests-there-are-too-many-female-adjuncts-over

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/09/24/recent-legal-cases-point-link-between-anti-adjunct-bias-and-age-bias

https://www.air.org/sites/default/files/downloads/report/Shifting-Academic-Workforce-November-2016.pdf

https://www.air.org/sites/default/files/downloads/report/Cost-Savings-or-Cost-Shifting-Contingent-Faculty-November-2016.pdf

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/09/21/adjuncts-novel

https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-covid-19-crisis-is-widening-the-gap-between-secure-and-insecure-instructors/

https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-to-fix-the-adjunct-crisis/?cid=gen_sign_in

https://www.oregonhumanities.org/rll/magazine/union-spring-2020/essential-but-excluded/

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/02/25/nlrb-ruling-potentially-limits-which-adjuncts-can-form-unions

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/08/12/new-aaup-statement-urges-institutions-not-treat-their-adjuncts-expendable

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/04/10/next-level-precarity-non-tenure-track-professors-and-covid-19

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/10/10/you%E2%80%99ve-heard-gig-economy-what-about-gig-academy

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/04/16/herb-childress-discusses-his-new-book-adjunct-underclass

https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/higher-ed-gamma/adjunctification-gen-ed-0

https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-to-navigate-the-demographic-cliff

Data about Adjunctification

College Loan Debt and the Life of an Adjunct Professor
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/12/27/adju-d27.html

Student Loan Debt Statistics in 2020
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2020/02/03/student-loan-debt-statistics/?sh=75d118d4281f

Student Debt and the Class of 2019
https://ticas.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/classof2019.pdf

Student Debt Interactive Map
https://ticas.org/interactive-map/

Collective Bargaining for Adjuncts

Oregon Employment Relations Board
https://www.oregon.gov/erb/pages/pecba.aspx

Portland State University Part Time Faculty Association
https://psufa.org/cba

Graduate Employees Union, AFT/AAUP Portland State University
https://www.pdx.edu/academic-affairs/sites/g/files/znldhr2396/files/2020-07/PSU_130017_P5%20CBA_Packets_PROOF_for_Website_Approved_4.11.2018.pdf

United Academics of Oregon State University AAUP/AFT, AFL-CIO
https://facultyaffairs.oregonstate.edu/sites/facultyaffairs.oregonstate.edu/files/uaosu_and_osu_collective_bargaining_agreement_june_1_2020_to_june_30_2024_signed_0.pdf

United Academics of University of Oregon AAUP/AFT, AFL-CIO
https://secureservercdn.net/192.169.223.13/648.f12.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CBA-2018-2021.pdf

Western Oregon University Federation of Teachers
https://wou.edu/hr/files/2020/11/WOUFT-CBA-FINAL-2020-2023.pdf

Association of Professors, Southern Oregon University
https://inside.sou.edu/assets/policies/APSOU_CBA_2018-2021.pdf

Associated Academic Professionals, AFT, AFL-CIO Eastern Oregon University
https://www.eou.edu/hr/files/2020/04/2019.22.EOU_.AAP_.CBA_.FINAL_.4.01.2020.pdf

Oregon Institute of Technology AAUP (final CBA in progress June 2021)
https://www.oit.edu/faculty-staff/faculty-union-bargaining

Clackamas Community College Part Time Faculty Association
https://www.clackamas.edu/docs/default-source/about-us/hr-(jobs)/pt-faculty-agreement.pdf?sfvrsn=b8c68968_10

Mt Hood Community College Part Time Faculty and Tutor Association
https://www.mhcc.edu/HR/Agreements/PTFac_Agree.pdf

Chemeketa Community College Faculty Association
https://www.chemeketa.edu/media/content-assets/documents/pdf/about/human-resources/humanresources_CFAContract20202021.pdf

Portland Community College Federation of Faculty and Academic Professionals
https://www.pcc.edu/hr/wp-content/uploads/sites/49/contracts/documents/faculty-ap-agreement.pdf

Umqua Community College Part Time Faculty Association
https://www.umpqua.edu/images/about-ucc/offices-administration/human-resources/downloads/mou-moa/2019-2022_UCCPTFA_Agreement-v2-sig.pdf

Rogue Community College Education Association
https://go.roguecc.edu/sites/go.roguecc.edu/files/dept/FAMAT/pdf/Contracts/Faculty%20CBA%202014-17.pdf

Linn-Benton Community College Part Time Faculty Association Agreement
https://www.linnbenton.edu/staff-resources/college-services/human-resources/documents/FINAL%20Interactive%20Part-Time%20Faculty%20Association%20Agreement.pdf

Faculty Forum of Central Oregon Community College
https://www.cocc.edu/departments/human-resources/employment/files/2019-23-faculty_cba_web.pdf

Blue Mountain Community College Faculty Association
https://www.bluecc.edu/home/showpublisheddocument?id=2040

Lane Community College Education Association
https://lccea.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/2019-2024-lccea-lane-contract-07-20-2020.pdf

Southwestern Oregon Community College Classified Federation, AFT, AFL-CIO
https://www.socc.edu/wp-content/uploads/classified-cba.pdf

United Employees of Columbia Gorge Community College AFT, AFL-CIO
https://www.cgcc.edu/sites/default/files/hr/Faculty%20Contract%202018-2022.pdf

Oregon Coast United Employees, Oregon Coast Community College AFT, AFL-CIO
https://www.cgcc.edu/sites/default/files/hr/Faculty%20Contract%202018-2022.pdf

Clark College Association of Higher Education (Vancouver, Washington)
https://www.ccahe.org/governing-documents/

Adjuncts in Action

Wildcat Organizer School
https://strikeuniversity.org/Organizer-School

Organizing Faculty Unions in a Right-to-Work Environment
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1650&context=jcba

Organized Faculty and Graduate Students in U.S. Higher Education
https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1166900

Oregon Institute of Technology (union led strike)
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/after-historic-strike-oregon-tech-faculty-reach-labor-deal-with-university/283-55d52d93-c690-4715-a493-111eee091713

City University of New York (wildcat strike)
https://www.amny.com/new-york/faculty-union-launches-ad-campaign-opposing-anticipated-cuny-adjunct-and-part-staff-layoffs/

City University of New York (opposition to layoffs campaign)
https://www.amny.com/new-york/faculty-union-launches-ad-campaign-opposing-anticipated-cuny-adjunct-and-part-staff-layoffs/

CUNY (video campaign No Layoffs No Cuts)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNobzh6WKak

UC Santa Cruz (graduate student led wildcat strike + housing crisis)
https://newrepublic.com/article/156591/wildcat-strike-grows-housing-crisis