Surge in Adjunct Activism Is Spurred by Bad Economy and Hungry Unions

by E Wayne Ross on December 15, 2009

The Chronicle: Surge in Adjunct Activism Is Spurred by Bad Economy and Hungry Unions

Institutions like Western Michigan University, Montana State University, and Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art are home to new adjunct unions. In Massachusetts a group of part-time faculty members sued the state on behalf of adjuncts who don’t get health insurance at community colleges. And the part-timers’ union at Rhode Island College has ratified the first contract for adjunct faculty members in the state.