Adjunct Faculty Assembly Holiday Party 

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Adjuncts need debt relief, too.

Support the bill introduced by Senator Durbin to let adjuncts access the Public Loan Forgiveness Program, just like their full-time colleagues.

Support Adjunct Faculty Loan Fairness Act of 2015 (Senator Durbin)

Adjuncts to PSC: Are you listening?

Holly Clarke, long-time CUNY adjunct and delegate to PSC Delegate Assembly, explains some of the problems adjuncts and graduate students have with the contract negotiation process.

David Loncle Studio art professor, College of Staten Island

An Adjunct Story: Our Economy Is Eating Higher Education

I've grown very attached to teaching (studio art) but I am struggling; this is a common refrain heard the past several years in what has become a countrywide outcry from contingent faculty. Recently, these tremors have been underscored by the reports from the House Education and the Workforce Committee and the Annual report from the AAUP. They paint a dour portrait of the adjunct predicament in the U.S. and I suspect the problems they layout only telegraph greater challenges ahead. We all want a way to support our communities, follow and share our passions and live without a constant fear of illness. Yet, while these aspirations have historically been ripped from beneath the feet of the uneducated classes, it seems we are now seeing the black hole of debt gobbling further up the ladder. . . .

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"An Adjunct Story: Our Economy is Eating Higher Education" by David Loncle (CSI Performing and Creative Arts) 

Who We Are and Why We're Here

Greetings and Salutations from the Adjunct Faculty Assembly.  We're a relatively new group, but we aren't new.  Adjuncts have been around for a while and, since we're the current faculty majority, it doesn't look like we're going anywhere anytime soon.

The Adjunct Faculty Assembly calls the City University of New York (CUNY) and the College of Staten Island (Staten Island's CUNY campus) home.  We hope this group will be a link between Adjuncts on our campus, between Adjuncts across CUNY, between part-time and full-time faculty, between the PSC-CUNY (our union) and adjuncts, and between our union chapter and us.

We have a lot of great things planned, but we'll need your help. If you have ideas for articles, please email us your thoughts.  If you have an article about Adjunct issues, please feel free to submit those as well.  Please read our Submission Guidelines first, however, before submitting ideas, abstracts, or articles.

We thank you for your interest and your support.

In Solidarity,
The Adjunct Faculty Assembly