Alex Friedrich
This year didn’t spare any sector of Minnesota higher education from headlines.
Campuses in the public, for-profit and nonprofit sectors struggled with crime, labor dissatisfaction, legal troubles or complaints over race relations. Read more →
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Tag: adjunct faculty
Organizers want the Service Employees International Union to represent professors in negotiating wages, benefits and working conditions. Read more →
Adjunct faculty members at Hamline University are expected to begin voting tomorrow on whether to unionize. The employees have two weeks in which to vote, and the National Labor Relations Board should announce results a few days after that, said Denise Welte, organizing director for the Service Employees International Union Local 284. The union is Read more →
Having been named among the “Top 5 Most Unequal Public Universities” by the Institute for Policy Studies on Sunday, the University of Minnesota says the institute’s report — The One Percent at State U — is “outright wrong” and based on “inaccurate data” and a flawed methodology. Here is the U’s updated response from this Read more →
After posting about the hiring flap between Hamline University and former Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer, I wanted to get some views on a few elements. I asked several hundred college faculty and administrators in MPR’s Public Insight Network what they thought about college faculty hiring practices and the role that job candidates’ politics (or Read more →
Liz Willen in The Hechinger Report lists one reason community college students can’t seem to catch up in remedial classes: More than half of community-college courses are taught by part-time, adjunct professors who typically make $1,000 to $3,000 per course and who don’t get benefits.The widespread use of adjuncts has led to questions about the Read more →