The Chronicle News Blog: New Adjunct-Faculty Union Gets a Name
The nascent national voice for contingent faculty members now has a name: The New Faculty Majority.
Adjuncts have been trying to form a national union and met in a teleconference at the end of February to hash out preliminary details. This past Sunday, during another call, the 18 members of the organizing committee picked “The New Faculty Majority” as their calling card, with a subtitle: The National Coalition for Adjunct and Contingent Equity. Nearly 70 percent of professors at the nation’s colleges and universities work off the tenure track.
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