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Adjunct faculty and staff working conditions are student learning conditions.
As students take on ever more debt, the colleges taking that money are spending less of it than ever on actual instruction. Non-tenured faculty, who teach a majority of courses at nearly all four-year colleges and universities, are paid per-course wages that often trap them earning $15-20,000 per year with no benefits or retirement--forcing many to piece together courses at multiple schools just to keep the lights on. Staff are often paid low salaries with ballooning workloads and can go years without getting raises.
This leads to a revolving door of professors and staff—eroding campus culture and consistency for students, causing burnout, and harming students’ education and college experience.
So where are all those tuition dollars going? And how can we make administration put their money where their mouth is and live up to the social justice values they publicly pay lip service to?
California College of the Arts
CCA staff ratified their first union contract in April 2022, alongside CCA adjunct faculty, who ratified their second contract. Both new contracts offer significant pay increases—especially for the lowest-paid staff members—as well as addressing job security, promotion opportunities, and other priorities. Click the button below to learn more!
Mills College at Northeastern University
Mills College has gone through a whole lot of turmoil over the past couple of years, culminating in being acquired by Northeastern University, creating delays in staff settling their first union contract and in adjunct faculty settling a new contract with their new employer.
After escalating actions, both staff and adjunct faculty reached agreements with Northeastern University in November, which were ratified in unanimous votes of membership.