UMass ADVANCE is pleased to announce the inaugural faculty teams to win the ADVANCE Equitable Practices in Collaboration and Shared Decision-Making (EPiC-SD) Award . Research shows that when all voices are heard, including the voices of women and BIPOC faculty, decision-making is better and has more effective outcomes.
How Contingent Faculty Organizing Can Succeed in Higher Education
Despite recent organizing gains among some contingent faculty members, the adjunctification of higher education has left hundreds of thousands of college and university teachers with low pay, spotty benefit coverage, and little job security. As former adjuncts Joe Berry and Helena Worthen report in their new book,
The rapid, pandemic related expansion of on-line education threatens to further erode employment conditions for the two-thirds to three-fourths of all faculty members who are contingent. (For an analysis of OLE and its impact, see Robert Ovetz’s “Conscious Linkage: The Proletarianization of Academic Labor in the Algorithmic University,”