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• At the New School, adjuncts faced old school union busting tactics while organizing.
• Michigan's 1,400 lecturers have a new three-year contract. However, there are some roars from inside the pride: LEO.
• In Vermont, something's boiling in the sugar house. An interview with the four women leading the CCV unionizing effort.
• Encourage your students to whisper in class. It just might help them stay focused.
• and more...

FEATURES

COVER STORY
Casual observers might not be shocked at the fight waged by the school’s administration. After all, the stories within higher education of administrations fighting faculty union drives are legion. However, the New School was founded in 1919 by progressive thinkers like Charles Beard, Thorstein Veblen and John Dewey, the first member of the American Federation of Teachers.

THE JOB
Michigan’s 1,400 non tenure-track faculty hope their Lecturers’ Employee Organization (LEO) will pull them back through the looking glass into a world where the people who teach in college classrooms earn as much as the people who paint and clean them. LEO President Bonnie Halloran and the other 13 members of LEO’s bargaining team have their work cut out for them.

INTERVIEW
Polly Ellerbe, Julie Waters, Heather Luden and Catherine O’Callaghan are all boiling mad. They teach at the Community College of Vermont. Prior to 2003, they had never met. Today, these four women lead the effort to organize the over 700 part-time faculty who teach on the college’s dozen campuses, as well as in the institution’s distance education program.

NEWS

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

SHOPTALK
Part-time faculty at Prairie State College are set to organize. Will the AFT let them?

GOING THE DISTANCE
Encourage your students to whisper in class, and you’ll find it helps them stay focused.

DESK DRAWER

• Faculty at Chicago Colleges Sacked for Honoring Picket Line
• NYU Launches Adjunct Faculty Health Insurance Plan
• In Taiwan, Universities Hire Russian Faculty on the Cheap
• In Japan, Limited-Term Faculty Shoulder the Workload
• GW Faculty Unionization Still in Limbo

OPINION

FIRST PERSON
It’s important to speak Academese, and to know when you’re doing it, as well.

A LITTLE RAILLERY
If you think your job leaves you little time to work out, think again. You may be overlooking the obvious.

THE LAST WORD