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download.Harper College Faculty Senate - the full-time faculty union at Harper College, a chapter of IFT Local 1600.
Part-Time Faculty Association at Columbia College - A pioneer in organizing adjuncts at private four-year colleges in the Chicago area (IEA)
City Colleges Contingent Labor Organizing Committee - The union for adjuncts at Chicago City Colleges (IEA)
Roosevelt Adjunct Faculty Organization - P-FACs neighbors on Michigan Avenue - and also in Schaumburg (IEA).
OCC Adjunct Faculty Association - Well-established local at Oakton Community College (IEA).
College of DuPage Adjunct Association - (IEA).
ISU Nontenure-Track/Part-time Faculty Association - Mostly full-time non-tenure track faculty, at Illinois State University (IEA).
Cook County College Teachers Union, Local 1600 - Representing full-time faculty in Cook County community colleges (AFT)
University Professionals of Illinois, Local 4100 - Representing 2700 full-time faculty at seven Illinois public universities (AFT).
Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions - see also their listing of recognized and unrecognized graduate employee unions in the US and Canada here (many have their own websites)
AFT Higher Education - Reports, news, etc. from the American Federation of Teachers.
IEA/NEA Higher Education - Resources and reports from the Illinois Education Association.
NEA Higher Education - Resources and links from the National Education Association.
American Association of University Professors
Chicago Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor - A group formed in 2001 to encourage organizing and education among and for adjunct faculty in the Chicago area.
Workplace: The Journal for Academic Labor - a webzine with a lot of quality articles on issues confronting academic workers.
Chicago Steward - On-line newsletter geared toward front-line union activists in the Chicago area.
Campus Equity Week - Articles on events associated with CEW 2003. See also the archived Chicago CEW (2001) site here.
Adjunct Nation - website associated with the National Adjunct Faculty Guild and its print magazine, Adjunct Advocate. This site offers some professional resources, news, a job bank, and so forth.
Adjuncts.com - Tips and resources for adjuncts, from Houghton Mifflin.
FairJobs.org - Web project of the National Association for Fair Employment, a group that focuses on contingent labor generally.
COUP - Committees United against Privatization (a group in the Chicago City Colleges).
Campaign for Better Health Care - this group was involved in rallies for Campus Equity Week in the fall of 2001 and are pushing for greater access to health care. It has a good links page on health issues.
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Contingent Faculty in Higher Education: An Organizing Strategy and
Chicago Area Proposal - Joe Berry's dissertation, on the Chicago COCAL
site. It was first available at NAFFE's
site.
Standards of Good Practice in the Employment of Part-Time/Adjunct Faculty - draft report (2002) from the American Federation of Teachers.
All Faculty Matter! A Study of
Nontenure-Track Faculty at Illinois Public Colleges and Universities -
February 2002 report commissioned by the Illinois Board of Higher Education.
Marching
Toward Equity - Curbing the Exploitation and Overuse of Part-time and
Non-tenured Faculty - October 2001 report from AFT highlighting their
efforts.
The Vanishing Professor - 1998 report from AFT highlighting the substitution of part-time for full-time employment.
National Conference on Contingent Academic Labor - reports from COCAL IV, held in 2001 in San Jose, California
College campuses ripe for unions' picking - from CNN.com
Casual Nation - press
release on a report from the Coalition of
Graduate Employee Unions. The full
report is also available.
The Growth of Adjunct Faculty Organization - part of a larger "web paper" by Paul Johnston (other pieces seem to be missing)
Who Is Teaching in U.S. College Classrooms? - a collaborative study by the Coalition on the Academic Workforce conducted in 1999 and released November 22, 2000.
Part-Time Faculty in Higher Education Annotated Bibliography - over two hundred listings compiled by Robert Pankin and Carla Weiss.
Adjunct Faculty Compensation Survey - A survey of per-course pay at community colleges conducted by Warren Mosby and hosted on the Adjunct Nation site.
AAUP Guidelines for Part-Time and Non-Tenure-Track Faculty
Illinois Board of Higher Education
Illinois Community College Board