November 11, 2005

Adjunct Activists Seek Equity on Campus

By JOHN GRAVOIS

Adjunct professors on campuses across the country made themselves known last week with an array of panels, speeches, and public displays of disaffection. The occasion was Campus Equity Week, an event organized to draw attention to the disparities between tenured and nontenured laborers in academe.

"Campus Equity Week is about highlighting a problem with the overuse and exploitation of about 500,000 college professors," said Keith Hoeller, a co-founder of the Washington Part-Time