Don’t look now, but the movement for graduate student health insurance is rapidly gaining momentum. Graduate students are speaking publicly about our lack of health insurance and mobilizing a surprising campaign to achieve this urgent need. Here is what has been happening and what...
Who is the adjunct project? Adjuncting Kate Griffiths, Anthropology Program: I’m getting involved with the Adjunct Project and the PSC contract fight because I’ve seen that when union members take that role seriously and get involved in our unions, exciting things can happen...
A Response to Barbara Bowen on the New PSC Strategy Adjuncting On the evening of Oct. 30 I joined approximately one thousand fellow union members at Cooper Union for a mass meeting of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC). The centerpiece of the event was a speech in which PSC President...
Adjuncting In the mid-1990s something curious happened on college campuses across America. Students began to wonder where their sneakers came from. They wondered who had made their new t-shirts and under what conditions. When they purchased a baseball cap featuring their college logo,...
As the academic year begins, some Graduate Center students are facing a college class as teachers for the first time while others are resuming their now familiar role of adjunct teaching. Veteran and first-timer alike, we are all heading back to work. And as we do, we should take a moment...
