WorkWeek looks at the massive exploitation of adjunct faculty. The largest number of faculty at most universities and colleges in the United States are called adjunct faculty. They have less pay, conditions and benefits of the regular faculty are are highly exploited by the bosses in education and politicians who allow this exploitation.
A panel was held during laborfest.net titled  Ending the Exploitation of Part-Time/Adjunct Professors in Higher Education and it focused on these conditions and what to do about them.
Included on the panel were 
Ann Robertson was a part-time contingent faculty member at San Francisco State University for four decades and is now emeritus. She continues to serve on the Executive Board of the faculty union, the California Faculty Association, and has spent years organizing contingent faculty. 
Carol Lang has been teaching history part-time for 15 years mostly at the City University of New York. She is a delegate in her union and has been actively fighting to improve the conditions of part-time faculty and facing resistance from her union leadership. She has fought for other issues that reflect her concern for the liberation of the working-class including divestment from weapons going to Palestine.  
Frank Cosco is a member of Vancouver Community College faculty union’s executive, bargaining and steward groups in both leadership and member roles for over three decades.  He is currently President of the VCCFA. He has taught English as a Foreign and as an Additional Language in Vancouver, Montreal, Italy and Japan.  Note: The Vancouver Community College faculty contract is a positive one-tier alternative to the two-tier conditions that will be discussed. 
Rick Baum is a member of AFT 2121 and has been teaching Political Science part-time in numerous Bay Area colleges for over forty years. He has been active in struggles at City College of San Francisco. 
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WW 8-28-25 The Exploitation Of Adjunct Faculty & Higher Education

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