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Resources: Fighting for Better Pay and Rights for Adjunct & Contingent Faculty

Resources from our higher education webinar with NEA General Counsel Alice O'Brien
women faculty pay gap
By: National Education Association
Published: September 2022
This resource originally appeared on NEA.org

Just because adjunct and contingent faculty don’t have tenure, doesn’t mean they don’t have rights and can’t demand better pay, benefits, and respect. 

Find resources from NEA efforts to make contingent faculty eligible for overtime pay as well as remove barriers to receiving Unemployment Insurance benefits.

Please fill out the form below to share your stories and continue to engage with us on issues of fair pay and contingent faculty rights.

Adjunct & Contingent Faculty Engagement Form

Additional Resources:

Ending the FLSA Teacher Exclusion

FLSA White Paper

Coalition Letter to Secretary Walsh

EPI FLSA Research

 

 

 

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