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  Stop shifting the true costs ofrunning a university onto faculty

  [“adjunct” employment practices] Normal is: Employer generates funds/budgets & give pay, in exchange for work. Employee gives work, in exchange for pay. Contrast with: Employer gives unlivable pay, in exchange for work. Employee not only works but is left to generate missing funds/budgeting (on the personal level, to survive). Please take responsibility for the true costs of running a university. It’s 100% yours. ...more »

  [“adjunct” employment practices]

  Normal is: Employer generates funds/budgets & give pay, in exchange for work. Employee gives work, in exchange for pay.

  Contrast with: Employer gives unlivable pay, in exchange for work. Employee not only works but is left to generate missing funds/budgeting (on the personal level, to survive).

  Please take responsibility for the true costs of running a university. It’s 100% yours.

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  Submitted by Community Member 2 years ago

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  Proper etiquette in business (and on campus) ["contingency"]

  Party 1: Here, go ahead and sign this contract I prepared, making no commitment to you.

  Smart businessperson: No thanks.

  Faculty employee domain: “What might the job options be later on?”

  University domain: “How many students will be enrolled later on?”

  Weigh the risk, and make a commitment.

  Shifting risk from big guy to little guy – just not cool.

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  Submitted by Community Member 2 years ago

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  Matching Funds for Faculty Salaries! Up to half a salary, *guaranteed*!! [“adjunct” contracting]

  You too can enjoy a full salary, with our guaranteed matching funds! Simply come up with your portion of the salary, and we’ll kick in the rest!

  Anyone see a problem here?

  Please, budget responsibly for the true costs of running courses and programs. No more shifting salary costs onto faculty.

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  Submitted by Community Member 2 years ago

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  Proper etiquette at a yard sale (and lessons for the college campus) [“adjunct” contracts]

  Customer: Say, could you hold that sofa for me all day long, without a deposit or a sure sale from me? Smart seller: No.

  Of course not. It’s taking advantage. As is taking faculty “off the market” for the next term without making any real financial commitment to these faculty. Time to rethink what we’re doing here.

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  Submitted by Community Member 2 years ago

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  “Unequal Treaties” – not just in the history books!

  Demonstrated right on US college campuses! Take one look at “adjunct” contracting and compensation.

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  Submitted by Community Member 2 years ago

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  Says he: Will you marry me? and I’ll make a final decision closer to the time…(Try 2)

  Just doesn’t happen! ….except in “adjunct” contracting. Please, when you ask for a commitment, make a commensurate commitment. Share the risk equitably, and compensate if plans must change.

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  Submitted by Community Member 2 years ago

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  Stop misclassifying faculty employees

  Predictable ongoing need warrants hiring regular employees, whether staff or faculty. Regularly-teaching faculty (“adjunct’) cannot appropriately be categorized “temporary.” Please discontinue this disingenuous practice.

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  Submitted by Community Member 2 years ago

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  Stop discriminating against faculty employees in the benefit system.

  Regularly-working staff employees receive benefits, yet regularly-working faculty employees (“adjunct”) are excluded from these very same benefits. Why should it matter whether you keep the books or stand in front of a classroom?

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  Says he: Will you marry me? and I’ll make a final decision closer to the time...

  .....and in the meantime, please forsake all others, and plan a wedding.

  This just doesn’t happen! ….except in “adjunct” contracting. Please, when you ask for a commitment, make a commensurate commitment. Share the risk equitably, and compensate if plans must change.

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  Submitted by Community Member 2 years ago

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  “Fair Trade” – not just for coffee plantations!

  For college campuses too! Trade Fair with academic workers, your “adjunct” faculty. Don’t exploit. Time to wake up and smell the coffee, here at home.

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  Submitted by Community Member 2 years ago

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  No more of “the guy who can’t commit” towards faculty

  Ugh, like finding yourself in a long-term relationship with “the guy who can’t commit.” Decide if you want to keep us on, and hire us. Courtship doesn’t go on forever; neither should “temporary” term-by-term contracting. It serves its purpose, then decisions are made. It’s time.

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  Aim High in Higher Education! Be a receptionist!

  Don’t be a measly teacher – go where the real jobs are! Get a real salary, benefits, opportunity to advance – and job security beyond the end of the semester!

  Nah, we don’t need teachers. Not like we need receptionists!

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  Where is Labor Law?

  -> Someone out on disability? Hire on a temporary basis.

  -> Got classes that are always offered, every semester, without fail? Yep, you got it, hire on a temporary basis again!

  C’mon, labor law – we need you!

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  Submitted by Community Member 2 years ago

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  Take responsibility for true costs of running programs

  Did colleges fail to plan for the true costs of running their courses and programs? One cost is hiring faculty, clearly. How did we end up *so* short, that some of our faculty are left to effectively subsidize that cost themselves – via overwork elsewhere, a spouse’s salary, and so forth – scrounging to make up for what is lacking in the colleges' financial planning for the courses they run. Isn’t this the colleges’ ...more »

  Did colleges fail to plan for the true costs of running their courses and programs? One cost is hiring faculty, clearly. How did we end up *so* short, that some of our faculty are left to effectively subsidize that cost themselves – via overwork elsewhere, a spouse’s salary, and so forth – scrounging to make up for what is lacking in the colleges' financial planning for the courses they run. Isn’t this the colleges’ responsibility? Of course it is. Please, we can do better.

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