WALL STREET JOURNAL: …The move comes amid growing frustration from students and parents paying tens of thousands of dollars a year in tuition for an education taught mostly by itinerant faculty, sometimes nicknamed “road scholars” because of all the time they spend driving between schools to teach.
Since last Thanksgiving, adjuncts have won unionization votes in eight colleges, from Boston University to Dominican University of California. Last week, full-time, nontenure-track faculty at Tufts University’s College of Arts & Sciences voted to unionize.
Those union victories come after more than 15,000 part-time teachers at 40 schools joined unions in the 2012-13 academic year, increasing their total to about 172,000, according to the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions at Hunter College in New York. The National Labor Relations Board in December issued a ruling opening the door for more union action at private religious schools, and a national adjunct walkout day is scheduled for Feb. 25… (more)
