Campus Equity Week Toolkit
Ideas and tools for campus education and activism
OCTOBER 24-28, 2022
Campus Equity Week is a time of education and activism that draws attention to the working conditions of faculty working on temporary, low-paid contracts, who now constitute the majority of college instructors. In general, the time to plan actions is during the last two weeks of October.
Officially, the date for Campus Equity Week is October 24-28, but what’s more important is that campus communities (faculty, students, staff, and administrators) to get the word out this fall before the budget and legislative process begin.
This toolkit compiled by the CFT Part-Time Faculty Committee contains materials to plan activities in your local union. Make it happen at your campus!
SIGNS & FLYERS
The following resources have been provided by the AFT for Campus Equity Week and other campus actions.
RALLY SIGNS
These rally signs are 17 inches x 11 inches. There are four message signs and one blank sign. The message signs also have a blank back for local messaging if you desire.
FLYERS
This series of flyers is based on the AFT’s 2019 nationwide survey of contingent faculty — the Contingent Faculty Quality of Life Survey. The 52-question survey was completed by 3,076 contingent faculty — part-time faculty, full-time non-tenure track faculty, and graduate employees. AFT was able to draw some robust conclusions about the conditions faced by this new majority of college faculty in the United States. Read our story about the survey results.
- Basic Needs and Food Security
- Healthcare
- Low Pay and Public Assistance
- Lack of Job Security
- Retirement
FOR FACULTY
Letters
Call for volunteers, generic
Campus Equity Week, generic
Articles
Crossing the divide: The conversation that adjunct and full-time faculty need to have
FOR STUDENTS
Resources to Circulate to Students
Myths about college degrees and the jobs economy | Changing Universities
The $15 minimum wage is a moral imperative | 1199 SEIU Healthcare Workers East
The effects of contingency on student success and the professoriate| Peer Review
| The Atlantic
Underpaid and restless | The Chronicles of Higher Education
Why don't American students strike? | The Nation
Why it's so hard for the poor to get ahead today | The Atlantic
CSU hurts students by hiring too many part-time lecturers | The Sacramento Bee
Resources for Working with Student Groups
Sample Poster
Adjunct Faculty Working Conditions Poster
Sample Button
Ten Action Items
- Adjuncts Claim Your Spaces
- Make a Pie Chart
- Make them Laugh
- Make Stickers
- Write Numbers on a Board
- Show this to Your Students
- Make and wear a t-shirt
- Send a politician a letter
- Acting So That Others May Not Live in Fear
- Wake Up! You’re Still an Adjunct
NEWSROOM
News articles about the issues of part-time faculty.
Adjuncts and Poverty
Adjuncts and the affordable healthcare act| American Association of Community Colleges
The professor charity case | Pacific Standard
The highly educated working poor adjunct professors| jimhightower.com
Vermont students, workers object to tuition dollars being used to fund poverty wages|truthout.org
Your college professor could be on public assistance| NBCNews.com
Corporatization
Instead of a war on teachers, how about one on poverty| Salon.com
Unethical Academia | Huffington-Post.com
Who are these unsung heroes of academe?| Current Issues in Education
Who is Professor Staff And How Can this Person teach So Many Classes | Center for the Future of Higher
Education
Who Needs Faculty?| Campaign for the Future of Higher Education
Denial of Rights and Respect
How to screw an adjunct, Part I
Part-time school, college staff may lose state health benefits | The Seattle Times
| The Chronicle of High Education
Plotting a Course
The way forward: It gets complicated
Women and Adjunctification
Why women leave academia and why universities should be worried | Guardian Professional
COMMUNITY OUTREACH
Fighting Labor Contingency: Getting Teacher Unions to Work with the Larger Labor Community