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Tag Archives: Adjunct Faculty

Dear Alma: can any scrap of paper be a union card?

November 21, 2014by richardslaugesen

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 […]

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Academic Freedom, Collective Bargaining, Dear Alma, Transparency, Uncategorized, Unionization

Meet Us at the Alma Mater, Noon, Thursday, September 11

September 8, 2014by Susan Davis

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 […]

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Academic Freedom, Collective Bargaining, News and announcements, Non-Tenure Track Faculty, NTT, Pay and Benefits, shared governance, Transparency, Uncategorized, Unionization

The Little Orange & Blue Book: Quotations from Chairman Kennedy

September 1, 2014by CFA

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 […]

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Academic Freedom, Non-Tenure Track Faculty, NTT, shared governance, Transparency, Uncategorized

Dear Alma: on Secret Codewords

August 30, 2014by CFA

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”. […]

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Academic Freedom, Dear Alma, shared governance, Transparency, Uncategorized, Unionization

Dear Alma: On the No-Teach List

August 30, 2014by CFA

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 […]

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Academic Freedom, Collective Bargaining, Dear Alma, Transparency, Uncategorized, Unionization
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Dear Alma: I am an excellent and agile campus leader…

August 27, 2014by CFA

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 […]

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Academic Freedom, Dear Alma, shared governance, Transparency, Uncategorized, Unionization

What Can We Do about the University of Illinois Administration? Get Organized!

August 26, 2014by CFA

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 […]

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Academic Freedom, Collective Bargaining, shared governance, Uncategorized, Unionization
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Dear Alma: on Double Secret Probation?

August 25, 2014by CFA

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 […]

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Academic Freedom, Dear Alma, shared governance, Transparency, Uncategorized, Unionization
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Dear Alma: Raises? What the Heck!?

August 15, 2014by Susan Davis

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 […]

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Collective Bargaining, Contingent Faculty, Dear Alma, Non-Tenure Track Faculty, NTT, Uncategorized, Unionization

Administration Withholds Promotion Raises Promised to “Specialized Faculty” by Provost’s Communication #25

August 13, 2014by Susan Davis

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. […]

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Collective Bargaining, Contingent Faculty, Non-Tenure Track Faculty, NTT, Pay and Benefits, Uncategorized, Unionization

UIUC is Punishing NTT Faculty for Organizing: Faculty Must Respond

August 13, 2014by Susan Davis

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 […]

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Academic Freedom, Collective Bargaining, Contingent Faculty, News and announcements, Non-Tenure Track Faculty, NTT, Pay and Benefits

Dear Alma| A “Friend of Mine” is Worried

May 14, 2014by Susan Davis

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 […]

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Collective Bargaining, Contingent Faculty, Dear Alma, Non-Tenure Track Faculty, NTT

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