Join us in room 5414 to make signs for the March 4th Rally at Governor Paterson’s office.
Equity Week from October 26th – 30th, 2009
Next Adjunct Project Meeting on Fri, Oct 23, 2-4pm in room 5409.
Campus Equity Week is a national week of action to raise awareness on issues of fairness and quality of education. It occurs biennially and is co-sponsored by many labor rights organizations. For example:
http://www.aft.org/higher_ed/cew/index.htm
http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/issues/contingent/cewpage.htm
Equity Week provides an opportunity to discuss with our students the inequities that are growing at CUNY and how it impacts all of us, teachers and students alike. It will coincide with major legislative decisions impacting all of our lives at CUNY, and will provide a chance for all us to be better informed about what is happening to our CUNY.
What can I do?
For some portion of a class (or all of a class!) during the week of October 26th – 30th, both adjuncts and full-time faculty will make a coordinated effort to incorporate information on the changes happening to CUNY, including adjunct teaching conditions and rising tuition costs, into class lessons. This could include:
Please consider bringing Equity Week to your classroom. If you don’t feel comfortable leading this discussion on your own, or want to find out more about Equity Week and adjunct activism, come to our next
Adjunct Project Meeting
Friday October 23, 2-4pm
in room 5409 at the Graduate Center
We have teaching materials available, as well as a colorful poster!! If you would like us to send you materials on a CD or the full-size color poster contact us at avette@gmx.net.
Come to the NYSHIP Health Care Party on Thursday, October 15, 8-10pm in room 5414 at the GC!
Sponsored by the Adjunct Project, we will:
1) Give you food, drink, and prizes!
2) Inform you about NYSHIP, solicit your feedback, and sign you up if you’re not already.
You must present either your NYSHIP card, a union card or a filled out NYSHIP application as your invitation.
We look forward to seeing you there (bring a friend)!
RAFFLE AND REFRESHMENTS
Please email theadjunctproject@gmail.com
The Adjunct Project is holding an emergency meeting next Monday (Sept. 21st) at 4 p.m. in Room 5414 at the Graduate Center.
In addition to Adjunct Project staff, we will have an officer from the PSC (Professional Staff Congress) to discuss the late pay issues many of you are facing, to instruct you on what to do an how it’s being handled on a larger level. If this has happened to you and you are wondering what to do before the meeting:
1. Run (don’t walk or call) to the Human Resources Dept. at the school that pays you. At the Graduate Ctr, it’s on the 8th floor across from the Bursar’s Office.
2. Explain to them that you were not paid and calmly ask for an advance on your salary.
3. Write an email to the Associate Provost of your division (Dr. Louise Lennihan for social sciences and humanities– llennihan@gc.cuny.edu and Dr. Ann Henderson for the sciences– ahenderson@gc.cuny.edu). Identify who you spoke with in payroll and explain what they told you and the date you signed your appointment letter.
4. Let the Adjunct Project know! We’ve already notified the PSC of the problem, but need to know the number of people this has impacted.
Thanks,
The staff at the Adjunct Project
theadjunctproject@gmail.com
Once again, many graduate assistants and adjuncts have not been paid for their appointment or reappointment due to a “high volume” of paperwork in payrolls across the CUNY system. If you weren’t paid please take the following steps:
March 30th to April 3rd
What does it mean to be a contingent worker at CUNY?
It means low pay, job insecurity, lack of health insurance, no academic freedom, and the inability to fully utilize all of our own resources to help our students and our university. Contingent workers make up over half of the faculty in the CUNY system, and this is benefiting no one. Full-time, tenure-track positions have been eliminated in favor of adjunctification, and contingent workers are being laid off at alarming rates.
Now is the time for all of us to do something about this. Contingent and full-time workers alike must draw attention to the problems facing CUNY, and we must do so in our classrooms. CUNY Equity Week provides the opportunity to tell our students what inequities we are faced with and how it impacts them.
What is CUNY Equity Week?
CUNY Equity Week provides the opportunity and resources to reach out to our students colleagues, and to discuss these issues. For all or a portion of a class during the week of March 30th – April 3rd both adjuncts and full-time faculty will make a coordinated effort to incorporate information on adjunct teaching conditions into class lessons. You may have a class discussion, a persuasive letter exercise, a statistical analysis of adjunct and full-time wages for the same workload, or an extra-credit assignment to find a link between course materials and adjunct labor.
Additionally, this year we are providing access to materials that will help you and your students map the CUNY system. Please contact us at theadjunctproject@gmail.com for the materials. Or come to one of our equity workshops on March 19 at 7pm and March 23 at 7pm. Or find our table in the lobby of the Graduate Center during the weeks of March 9th thr 13th, and March 23rd thr 27th.
What Can I Do?
You can commit to putting a blurb on your syllabus about the position of adjuncts in the academic system. You can dedicate one class session, or a portion of it, to teaching your students about equity and how it relates to their studying conditions. You can encourage colleagues to do so, too.
It will run from March 30th until April 3rd. Stay tuned for more information
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Join the Adjunct Project and members of the CUNYTime! collective to discuss what changes can be made, what you’d like to see included, and what you can do!
There will be refreshments and laughs, as always.
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