Comments on: Report on AAA adjunct rights resolution

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Fri, 03 Jan 2014 16:08:39 +0000

[…] results in meager earnings, no benefits, no security: exactly what we see for current trends in adjunct labor. Artisans can be rapidly displaced and replaced, vulnerable to the same invasive economies that […]

By: anthrocharya

anthrocharya — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 01:42:37 +0000

Will, I was a presenter in the CoLR workshop on contingent faculty. One of the things I talked about was the high cost of AAA membership and meeting attendance, and I did a brief comparison with the AAPAs and SAAs (the AAAs are the most expensive). So it did get pointed out…FWIW.

By: Lee Kottner

Lee Kottner — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 02:13:28 +0000

It’s a good start. But until full time tenured faculty speak out in their departments and to the administration against the exploitation of their colleagues, that’s all it is. Demand parity from the administration. Demand more tenure lines. Demand they do their job to find funding, instead of pawning the lobbying off on academics. It’s all very well to support us in resolutions. What happens in your home departments? That’s where we need the support.

By: Rex

Rex — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 18:23:06 +0000

Bravo to the AAA and Leith Mullings for moving this forward.

By: Will Meyer

Will Meyer — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 15:58:22 +0000

This is a great report … thanks Andrea. Among the things I am still left to wonder is whether or not anyone pointed out to the AAA that while we’re prepared to propose policy changes and support adjuncts more broadly, the costs of belonging to the Association and of attending its meetings are still prohibitively expensive for most of us adjuncts. Wouldn’t it make the organization’s commitment to these initiatives more compelling (and less token) to actually make changes to address these problems for its own members?