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City Visions: Contingent Faculty Challenge Higher Education Labor Norms

Contingent, adjunct or part-time professors make up the majority of faculty nationwide, yet many labor under difficult if not harsh conditions -- including low pay, lack of resources and minimal job security. As the slogan goes, teachers’ working conditions are students’ learning conditions. What is this emergent labor movement working to make visible, transform and achieve?

Producer: Zara Zimbardo

  Guests:

- Maria Maisto, president, New Faculty Majority

- Joe Berry, labor historian, and member of the international advisory committee of the Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor.

- Cynthia Mahabir, Laney College faculty, Peralta Federation of Teachers

- Christian Nagler, visiting faculty, SF Art Institute

- Craig Flanery, special projects director for The New Faculty Majority and national coordinator for Campus Equity Week

Resources:

Campus Equity Week

New Faculty Majority

Adjunct Action

Peralta Federation of Teachers

Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor