Dear Alma: can any scrap of paper be a union card?
Dear Alma, The Admin’s FAQ on unions tries to suggest the Campus Faculty Association will somehow trick faculty into unionizing. It just about claims that CFA could pick up one […]
Tag Archives: Adjunct Faculty
Meet Us at the Alma Mater, Noon, Thursday, September 11
Dear Colleagues, As you know, UIUC faces an unprecedented crisis of academic freedom and shared governance. At the same time, our non-tenure-track colleagues are facing frozen wages and an unwillingness […]
The Little Orange & Blue Book: Quotations from Chairman Kennedy
Greetings, friends, from the Campus Faculty Association! Members of the university community have been urged to value civility as much as scholarship(1). In this spirit, we can learn much from the […]
Dear Alma: on Secret Codewords
Dear Alma, My friend says “civility” is just a codeword for “don’t upset the donors”. Could she be right? Yours, Politically Sensitive Dear Polly, You can’t spell “euphemism” without “UI”. […]
Dear Alma: On the No-Teach List
Dear Alma, I seem to be on the University’s No-Teach List. How can I get off? Perplexed Instructor Dear Perp, People in Swanlund Administration Building were suddenly too busy to talk with me, after I […]
Dear Alma: I am an excellent and agile campus leader…
Dear Alma, I am an excellent and agile campus leader. Recently I had to make a problem “go away” by “just doing it”. But it hasn’t gone away, and Facebook […]
What Can We Do about the University of Illinois Administration? Get Organized!
We are at a crisis point for faculty governance and academic freedom. Last Friday, the administration imposed a capricious and arbitrary standard of “civility,” governing what faculty are allowed to say both on […]
Dear Alma: on Double Secret Probation?
Dear Alma, I hear that because of faculty complaints about the new civility standard, the Chancellor is putting all of campus onto Double Secret Probation. What have you heard? Classical Cinema Lover […]
Dear Alma: Raises? What the Heck!?
Dear Alma, What the heck! I worked very hard over the past year and was looking forward to my annual merit increase from my department. Now I get a letter […]
Administration Withholds Promotion Raises Promised to “Specialized Faculty” by Provost’s Communication #25
The administration exerted its power this month by refusing to give raises to newly promoted non-tenure-track faculty. In the face of this unilateral action, the need for a union has never been clearer. […]
UIUC is Punishing NTT Faculty for Organizing: Faculty Must Respond
On Tuesday, August 5, Provost Adesida wrote to hundreds of non-tenure-track faculty who have just been certified as a union (CFA Local 6546 AFT/AAUP) that “departments may not implement academic […]
Dear Alma| A “Friend of Mine” is Worried
Dear Alma, A friend of mine has been a full-time Research Associate Professor for twenty years. This year his appointment was reduced to less than full-time (0.90 appointment level). Now he […]
