Tag: adjunct faculty

Faculty & Staff

Report: All Faculty Types Suffer Job Losses in 2020-2021 Academic Year

The 2021 CUPA-HR Faculty in Higher Education Report found that all faculty types suffered job losses during the 2020-21 academic year. In terms of full-time faculty in specific departments, leisure and recreational activities and library science suffered the biggest job loss percentage, the report finds. As for sheer number, business, management and marketing and biological and biomedical sciences lost the most faculty, with a third to almost 50% of institutions reporting cuts in these departments.

April 8, 2021

News Roundup

University of the Arts Faculty Unionize with United Academics of Philadelphia

Faculty at the University of the Arts – mostly adjuncts without access to health-care benefits nor job security – have voted 255 to 2 for unionizing with United Academics of Philadelphia (UAP), The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. UAP is a union for workers’ rights in higher ed, particularly among adjuncts. The size of the bargaining unit […]

November 25, 2020

News Roundup

Rutgers Adjuncts Hold Grade-In for Equal Pay, Job Security

Adjunct professors at all three Rutgers University campuses are holding a grade-in Wednesday to demand equal pay for equal work. The part-time lecturers (PTL) will be joined by full-time faculty and graduate students across the Camden, Newark and New Brunswick campuses as they seek $7,250 per course taught, access to health care, job security through […]

April 30, 2019