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The Million Student March is happening this April 13th-
Solidarity, students!
#NAWD
https://www.facebook.com/events/192941904407731/
"We don't want to strike but we will"
On this anniversary of #NAWD, the California Faculty Association is on track for the largest teachers' strike in U.S. history
http://www.sacbee.com/…/…/capitol-alert/article59141563.html
#NAWD creativity, courage, and unity- a year ago today
http://www.democracynow.org/…/on_national_adjunct_walkout_d…
"Adjuncts have also played a “key role” in the movement, making pay parity for adjuncts or an adjunct union a demand in a number of marches across the country."
http://thinkprogress.org/…/12/3721211/million-student-march/
#NAWD
Because it isn't just adjuncts who suffer from Corporate Ed-
http://www.commondreams.org/…/higher-education-capitalism-i…
From Sheera Stern:
"Among the people killed yesterday at Umpqua was an adjunct named Larry Levine. I propose a moment of silence for Mr. Levine in all of our classes this week. Here is the description of Mr. Levine from The New York Times:
'The instructor was a gray-bearded, pipe-smoking fisherman who honed his love of literature through years of writing about chasing summer steelheads. His students were the face of community colleges across America — a mix of young and old, ...some on the path to bright careers, some returning after decades of wrong turns. All had just begun a class on the art of constructing a reasoned argument when suddenly, the incomprehensible literally burst through the door."
"Larry Levine, the adjunct professor teaching the class where the gunman first opened fire, was 67. While his Facebook page listed his hometown as New York, in recent years he lived in a small cabin hidden behind fir trees on the bank of the North Umpqua River, where he could hear the water rushing by from the porch. A reader, writer and outdoorsman, he worked as a summer fishing guide and published a number of essays on the joys of fishing the Northwest’s rivers.'
"But the hyperinflated price tag of college has funneled toward another aspect of the higher education system: driving funds into administrative offices—a pattern “reflected in increases in the numbers of administrative positions, increases in those salaries, and increases in the percentage of college budgets going to these functions.”
http://www.thenation.com/…/why-is-college-so-expensive-if-…/
It's no coincidence that #NAWD started on a CSU campus. San Jose State University outgoing president Mo Qayoumi is collecting a $261,000 "transition" package while CSU lecturers are struggling to earn a living wage.
http://www.mercurynews.com/…/csu-faculty-hold-strike-vote-o…
Way to go, UA writing instructors!
#NAWD
http://tucson.com/…/article_3c39df35-7db2-50e7-84d9-94934c4…
"After many hours of meditation I've come to realize in the end that it doesn't help you or the institution of higher education if I accept my position as simply another one of the 76.4 percent of adjunct instructors who at once serve to prop up the system while getting unequivocally crushed by it."
Solidarity!
"Relying on adjuncts is a growing practice for big private schools such as USC, which seem to increasingly use corporate tactics to keep costs down and keep salaries high at the top end. The proportion of USC's faculty that is adjunct has bloated to 75 percent in recent years, while the salary for USC's top eight officials has tripled since 2001. Tuition has increased 92 percent in the same period."
"On February 25 of this year, adjunct professors across the country staged a walkout to show that they had had enough:"
http://college.usatoday.com/…/viewpoint-if-education-is-a-…/
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