Read the comments of Dr. Kathleen Barker (one of IP's Consulting Editors) in the new APA Monitor featured below.
"Unionization is especially important for adjunct professors, part-time professors and other contingent workers", says psychology professor Kathleen Barker, PhD, co-editor of Contingent Work: American Employment Relations in Transition (Cornell, 1998) and senior college representative for the Professional Staff Congress at The City University of New York (CUNY): Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn. "The academic work force has undergone a huge transformation over the last 25 years that has resulted in a shift from full-time to contingent faculty with few if any rights", says Barker.
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Read the comments of Dr. Kathleen Barker (one of IP's Consulting Editors) in the new APA Monitor featured below.
"Unionization is especially important for adjunct professors, part-time professors and other contingent workers", says psychology professor Kathleen Barker, PhD, co-editor of Contingent Work: American Employment Relations in Transition (Cornell, 1998) and senior college representative for the Professional Staff Congress at The City University of New York (CUNY): Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn. "The academic work force has undergone a huge transformation over the last 25 years that has resulted in a shift from full-time to contingent faculty with few if any rights", says Barker.
[follow this link for the whole story]