CSUN University News Clippings

When Adjuncts Push for Better Status, Better Pay Follows, Study Suggests

(November 3, 2009)

By Peter Schmidt

If adjunct faculty members want to improve their working conditions, they might be better off focusing less on bread-and-butter concerns and more on securing their place at the table, a new study suggests.

The study, being presented this week at the annual conference of the Association for the Study of Higher Education, examined 30 North American colleges at which full- and part-time adjunct faculty members had gained benefits or some other improvement in their workplace. It concluded that adjuncts had made the most progress at colleges where they tried to transform the campus climate to be more inclusive of them, rather than simply fighting to change one employer practice at a time……..

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Publication: The Chronicle of Higher Education