Equality for Contingent Faculty: Overcoming the Two-Tier System

Contributors

Contributors Frank Cosco served as president of the Vancouver Community College Faculty Association , British Columbia. He has contributed through many roles in the union as bargainer, executive member, leader, and steward. He has taught English as a Second or Additional Language to adults in Canada, Italy, and Japan for over thirty years. He is also a vice president of the Federation of Post-Secondary Educators of British Columbia, a federation of faculty unions from ten colleges, six universities, and two institutes in the public sector and a federated local from five private training schools. Frank Donoghue is professor of English at the Ohio State University. He is the author of The Fame Machine: Book Reviewing and Eighteenth-Century Literary Careers and The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities. Don Eron is senior instructor in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Colorado (CU), Boulder. He is the architect, with Suzanne Hudson, of the Instructor Tenure Project (ITP), which has led to significant changes in Colorado state law. He is the principal author of the AAUP Colorado Conference ’s “Report on the Termination of Phil Mitchell,” as well as “Report on the Termination of Ward Churchill” (in AAUP Journal of Academic Freedom 3). With Suzanne Hudson, he was the recipient of the AAUP’s 2012 Tacey Award. He is a member of the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure. John Hess has taught film studies in contingent positions at Sonoma State University (Rohnert Park, California) and San Francisco State University, where he became an activist in the faculty union. In the early 1990s, he taught as associate professor at Ithaca College in New York State, then returned to California and was hired by the California Faculty Association to serve as an organizer of the contingent faculty. He has written widely about film and is one of the founding coeditors of Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Film. Keith Hoeller is an adjunct professor of philosophy at Green River Community College, where he became the first adjunct to win the college’s Distinguished Faculty Award (2012). He received the 2012 John and Suanne Roueche Excellence Award from the League for Innovation in the Community College. He 243 was also the first adjunct to win the AAUP’s Georgina Smith Award (2002) for improving the status of women and advancing collective bargaining. He is the cofounder of the Washington Part-Time Faculty Association and helped to organize the New Faculty Majority. He has published more than two dozen opinion articles on adjunct faculty in newspapers throughout Washington and in the Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed. He initiated two successful class-action lawsuits to recover health care and retirement benefits for adjuncts, drafted successful Washington legislation to give sick leave to adjuncts, and helped to pass a budget amendment to extend incremental step raises to all community college adjuncts. Elizabeth Hoffman is lecturer in English at California State University, Long Beach. Hoffman served ten years as a statewide officer of the California Faculty Association (CFA); she has also been a member of four CFA bargaining teams. She served two terms on the National Council of the AAUP, and served on the AAUP committee that developed the AAUP policy statement Contingent Appointments and the Academic Profession. Jack Longmate is an adjunct English instructor at Olympic College (Bremerton, WA), where he has taught for twenty years. As a member of TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages), he chaired its caucus on part-time employment concerns and its employment issues committee. He is a founder and former board member of the New Faculty Majority. With Frank Cosco, he drafted The Program for Change, which is a roadmap to convert the two-tiered American system into a single tier. Dougal MacDonald is an online tutor (instructor) at Athabasca University, Alberta, where he teaches Introduction to the Profession of Teaching. He has also been an award-winning sessional (contract) instructor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton for the last thirteen years and an intermittent contract instructor at Northern Lakes College, Alberta, and Yellowhead Tribal College in Edmonton. In 2005 he coauthored a textbook for elementary science teaching methods that is now in its second edition. Richard Moser was associate professor of American history at Middle Tennessee State University. He is author of The New Winter Soldiers: GI and Veteran Dissent during the Vietnam Era and is coeditor with Van Gosse of...