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Strike starts at Chicago State University, more on the way

Faculty members and academic support professionals began striking Monday, the first of what may be several new walkouts at multiple universities in the coming days. ....

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UCLA reverses course on paying adjuncts

After three days of complaints about its previous policy of not paying an adjunct, the university reverses course. ....

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Higher Education Is Now a Battlefield Between Workers and Corporatization

"Power Despite Precarity" offers a case study of how educators in the California State University system built power. ....

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UCLA criticized for advertising adjunct job without pay

University officials say but failed to note in the job listing the position could be good for someone “compensated by other sources,” such as grants. ....

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