| AFT president calls for improved higher-ed staffing |
| Friday, 24 April 2009 18:33 |
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AFT President Randi Weingarten issued an urgent call on April 20 for labor and management in the nation's colleges and universities to work together, on campus and in the public arena, to reverse the decades-long overreliance on and exploitation of contingent faculty members. "In terms of the investment in higher education, there is a real dilemma in our higher ed schools when almost three-quarters of the instructional staff is made up of contingent faculty and more than half our classes are taught by contingent instructors," Weingarten said. She was the opening luncheon speaker on April 20 at the 36th annual conference of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions. Source: Inside AFT |
