Sep 27 2019
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Earlier this week, Bloomberg ran a quirky business story about a losing investment by Harvard’s endowment fund.…
Sep 3 2019
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Last year saw the highest number of strikes in America in more than 30 years. The strikes by public teachers got the…
Jul 3 2019
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At America’s research universities, “the number of black tenured faculty members grew by only one-tenth of a percent from 2013 to 2017, to comprise 4 percent of the total tenured faculty. The number of Hispanic and Latino tenured faculty members also grew by less than 1 percent... [to] 4.6 percent of tenured faculty.”… Read more
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Jun 19 2019
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“Two half-time adjunct jobs do not make a full-time income. Far from it,” Ximena Barrientos says. “I’m lucky that I…
Mar 28 2019
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More than 2,800 adjunct professors at Miami-Dade College have voted to unionize, making them the largest adjunct union in the country. Florida baby!
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Mar 6 2019
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Journalism—the act of finding stuff out, then writing it down—is not hard to learn how to do. What is hard is…
Nov 19 2018
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Mike Bloomberg (net worth: $52 billion) modestly announced in a New York Times op-ed yesterday that he is donating…
Apr 17 2018
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Harvard University markets itself as a bastion of enlightenment unrivaled anywhere in the world. When it comes to…
Apr 10 2018
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At Penn State University today, 3,800 graduate student workers will begin voting on whether or not they want to…
Jan 30 2018
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Because they are overworked and underpaid, the graduate student workers at Columbia University—like many others…
Sep 27 2017
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Like thousands of their peers across America, University of Chicago grad student workers are considering forming a…
Aug 25 2017
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Unions are not just a feel-good sort of thing to do. New research about higher ed unions shows just how much workers…
Jul 13 2017
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Adjunct professors—the worker ants of higher education—are the lowest-paid highly educated workers in America. What…
Apr 7 2017
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A bunch of housekeepers at St. Xavier University—a Catholic school in Chicago—have wanted to unionize for a long…