The Adjunct Project

Equity Week from October 26^th – 30^th, 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: 

• A class discussion
• A persuasive-letter writing exercise,
• A statistical analysis of adjunct and full-time wages for the same workload,
• An extra-credit assignment to find a link between course materials and adjunct labor.

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.