...Micki McGee Duke University Press 2002 Hooked on Higher Education and Other Tales from Adjunct Faculty Organizing How I Gave Up My $50,000-a-Year Teaching Habit Micki McGee...

... assis- graduate students tants and sometimes adjunct and even tenure-stream faculty. This essay is should choose as much about their struggles as it is about those at NYU because, while particular circumstances vary, one disturbing trend remains...

... Willis paign to unionize New York University’s graduate assistants had larger reverberations on campus: it churned up a wave of faculty debate and activism. While the students’ mobilization incited adjuncts to move ahead with their own unionization drive, the administration’s response...

... uate students to touch the lives of adjuncts and full-time faculty as well. won their legal right to While this essay is an update on campus unionization, it is also an attempt bargain and held an to place current organizing drives within the context of an emerging aca- election for union demic...

... . www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/health/unitedhealth-mental-health-parity.html . Allen David . Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity . New York : Penguin , 2001 . Anderson L. V. “ What Really Happened to Margaret Mary Vojtko, the Duquesne Adjunct Whose Death Became a Rallying...

... . Gilbert, Sandra. 1998 . Bob's jobs: Campus crises and“adjunct” education. Profession 1998 . New York: MLA. Kelley, Mark. 1998 . On incivility in academe. minnesota review , no. 50/51: 243 -48. Kelley, Robin D. G. 1997 . The proletariat goes to college. In Will teach for food: Academic labor...

... on NYU and the Academic Labor Movement Kitty Krupat and Laura Tanenbaum 27 Student Unionism and Sustaining Student Power Charlie Eaton 51 Hooked on Higher Education and Other Tales from Adjunct Faculty Organizing Micki McGee 61 The Waste Product of Graduate Education: Toward...

... of Musicians (AFM) succeeded in organizing, and securing a contract for, the part-time Jazz Program faculty in the Mannes College of Music at the New School University. Among the seventy adjunct teachers represented by the union were some venerable musicians from the world...

... to fascist Germany in 1936. John Patrick Leary received his PhD in comparative literature from New York University and is adjunct professor of English at Wayne State Uni- versity. He was a Fulbright Fellow in Caracas, Venezuela, from 2005 to 2006. Anna McCarthy is associate professor and associate...

... was only one of many offered at NYU during the period in which graduate students and, later, adjuncts conducted their organizing campaigns. On both the graduate and undergraduate level, courses centered on Marxism and Marxist theory were offered by José Esteban Muñoz, Phillip Brian Harper, Emily Apter...

.... Inevitably, nonprofit institutions have taken on the character of for- profits, and well-established trends confirm that the research university (with science faculty in the lead) is behaving more and more like an adjunct to private industry...

...- tiveness of learning; decentralized power structures with incentives for cultural wars and growth and gain-share revenues; the redistribution of labor—in this case away from tenured to part-time and adjunct faculty; the development of student protests...

..., on adjuncts who enjoy no security of tenure, and so on teaches our students that the corporate free-market culture is accept- able and that it is rational. As my Trinity colleague Paul Lauter wrote in 2002, “The free market ideology being taught at U.S. universities has to do with winning the hearts...

... and adjunct instructors do most of the teaching. Accord- ing to recent Department of Education statistics, 44.5 percent of all faculty members in U.S. higher education are employed part-time today.42 In 1969, only 3 percent of faculty held non  –  tenure track appointments; today, 60 percent have...

... cost-cutting measures that shift a significant percent- Schueller/Dawson age of teaching onto the backs of ill-paid and often insecure adjuncts and graduate students. Although statistics are notoriously unreliable as a result of underreporting by the Department...

... revenue, decrease costs, increase student numbers, reduce the expenditure on students, replace costly staff with adjunct staff, increase marketing and branding budgets? I just don't buy it.” Stanley, in a nutshell, captured the issue. He warned us that critical, creative scholarship is always vulnerable...

... to function as a mere adjunct to the private car, rather than a fully viable option to private transportation. The bus’s adjunct status highlights the gender inequity of waiting, walking, and traveling in a city where public...

.... There is a symbolic rotation of faculty from the U.S. campus, but teaching and research are primarily sold or contracted out to third-party vendors who function as non – tenure track professors and visiting adjunct specialists. Because the United States has long been admired for its higher educa- tion...

... to an expansion in new student populations and a widespread reliance on mixed forms of labor by graduate students and adjuncts as a cheap source by which to derive the highest possible profits from instructional activities, as well as to shift the ratio of expenditures away from those same activities. However...

... to an adjunct role of the uni- versity itself in the lateral mobility of a highly volatile knowledge sector. This ongoing formation and decomposition of a professional-managerial class sees its organizational resonance in the presence of industrial unions...