Adjuncts are permitted to work at another CUNY college in addition to the 9 contact hours at a home college. Why MUST it be another college? It is an added burden as time is needed to travel and additional car fare. It is benefits all parties concern if adjuncts can work in the same institution.
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Alan Winson
10 years ago
Though CUNY's 9/6 policy creates enormous hardships on Adjuncts, and the amendment suggested here opens up positive outcomes, the larger problem continues. The administration is allowed to continue the practice of putting the burden of lowering state funds onto part-time labor.
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Lory Becasu
10 years ago
Adjuncts should also have office hours for courses that are 3 or 4 credits.
Many adjuncts are only able get one course at a school that is 3-4 credits. The students need help.
Adjuncts should be required to have office hours and be fully paid for it.
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Lisa Robbins-Stathas
10 years ago
I hope SOMEONE at the Union addresses this as this has been something that disadvantages adjuncts (i.e., since that way we don't get paid the one-hour paid office hour if we teach on two campuses because of this indefensible and absurd policy
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Oscar Bate AKIDE NDUNGE
10 years ago
Good initiative and strongly support it.
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Howard Swerdloff
10 years ago
The result of the 9-6 rule is adjunct poverty!
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Anonymous
10 years ago
I would love the opportunity to teach another course at my current Community College.
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Maria Plochocki
10 years ago
Time for some common sense!
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miguel tactuk
10 years ago
Yes, more flexible workload for all adjuncts
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Nancy Jeudy
10 years ago
I think a flexible workload will benefits us very much,
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LM Lambert
10 years ago
Also notice that we have NO seniority. in many of our campuses the coordinator has 100% power to assign classes at his discretion regardless if we ask to teach more classes. The professors who have been at an institution long time should be, at least, offered, to choose the classes they could teach before assigning them to new people who just came on board. some of us get stuck with horrible schedules and teaching on Sundays while new instructors get the best schedule. We never know if we will be called back next semester and wait in agony until about a week before class start to find out what classes we will be teaching. That is A VERY UNFAIR treatment,
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Anonymous
10 years ago
Adjuncts are an exploited labor force: little pay, little job security, and little choice in what classes we are assigned to teach (usually classes that full-time faculty don't want to teach). We deserve the same respect and pay as our full-time colleagues.
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Nicholas R Marino
10 years ago
For all the reasons outlined in the argument, the 9/6 rule does not function as intended. Replacing the rule with this proposal mitigates, to at least some degree, the hectic schedules and dire financial circumstances of adjuncts across CUNY.
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Anonymous
10 years ago
Looking forward to a fair treatment. We love our students, but we are living in abject poverty. Please help us to survive just like a human being. Thank you.
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Johanna Lessinger
10 years ago
The real issue, of course, is low, low pay per course. If adjunctions could teach 4/3 like full-timers, and be paid even semi-adequately, the issue would vanish.
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Sarah Pollack
10 years ago
Many of our key adjuncts who sustain the individual CUNY campuses are forced to make onerous, expensive commutes under the current policy. Although, in theory, the limitation to 9 hours per campus had a reasonable rationale --as a means of pressuring campuses to open more full-time lines-- it has failed as a strategy and backfired. As it stands, departments must hire a greater number of adjuncts, instead of awarding outstanding faculty with additional hours. This is a detriment to morale, organization of programs and the creation of a more cohesive faculty.
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Lowell Finkelstein
10 years ago
Enhanced flexibility will mean greater participation in academic objectives.
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Edwin Mendez-Santiago
10 years ago
Greater flexibility in hours benefits all. Many departments are unable to retain qualified adjuncts due to this limitations.
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Anthony Paratore
10 years ago
I'll support this but ideally there should be NO limits on what a qualified, capable adjunct can teach. If an adjunct can handle 4 classes at one school - let them! Who suffers in this scenario aside from the adjunct? Certainly not the students!
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Brenda Seals
10 years ago
I believe that we should be able to teach a full load and, if full, then we should be able to opt into health insurance and other benefits. Thanks!
Adjuncts are permitted to work at another CUNY college in addition to the 9 contact hours at a home college. Why MUST it be another college? It is an added burden as time is needed to travel and additional car fare. It is benefits all parties concern if adjuncts can work in the same institution.
Though CUNY's 9/6 policy creates enormous hardships on Adjuncts, and the amendment suggested here opens up positive outcomes, the larger problem continues. The administration is allowed to continue the practice of putting the burden of lowering state funds onto part-time labor.
Adjuncts should also have office hours for courses that are 3 or 4 credits. Many adjuncts are only able get one course at a school that is 3-4 credits. The students need help. Adjuncts should be required to have office hours and be fully paid for it.
I hope SOMEONE at the Union addresses this as this has been something that disadvantages adjuncts (i.e., since that way we don't get paid the one-hour paid office hour if we teach on two campuses because of this indefensible and absurd policy
Good initiative and strongly support it.
The result of the 9-6 rule is adjunct poverty!
I would love the opportunity to teach another course at my current Community College.
Time for some common sense!
Yes, more flexible workload for all adjuncts
I think a flexible workload will benefits us very much,
Also notice that we have NO seniority. in many of our campuses the coordinator has 100% power to assign classes at his discretion regardless if we ask to teach more classes. The professors who have been at an institution long time should be, at least, offered, to choose the classes they could teach before assigning them to new people who just came on board. some of us get stuck with horrible schedules and teaching on Sundays while new instructors get the best schedule. We never know if we will be called back next semester and wait in agony until about a week before class start to find out what classes we will be teaching. That is A VERY UNFAIR treatment,
Adjuncts are an exploited labor force: little pay, little job security, and little choice in what classes we are assigned to teach (usually classes that full-time faculty don't want to teach). We deserve the same respect and pay as our full-time colleagues.
For all the reasons outlined in the argument, the 9/6 rule does not function as intended. Replacing the rule with this proposal mitigates, to at least some degree, the hectic schedules and dire financial circumstances of adjuncts across CUNY.
Looking forward to a fair treatment. We love our students, but we are living in abject poverty. Please help us to survive just like a human being. Thank you.
The real issue, of course, is low, low pay per course. If adjunctions could teach 4/3 like full-timers, and be paid even semi-adequately, the issue would vanish.
Many of our key adjuncts who sustain the individual CUNY campuses are forced to make onerous, expensive commutes under the current policy. Although, in theory, the limitation to 9 hours per campus had a reasonable rationale --as a means of pressuring campuses to open more full-time lines-- it has failed as a strategy and backfired. As it stands, departments must hire a greater number of adjuncts, instead of awarding outstanding faculty with additional hours. This is a detriment to morale, organization of programs and the creation of a more cohesive faculty.
Enhanced flexibility will mean greater participation in academic objectives.
Greater flexibility in hours benefits all. Many departments are unable to retain qualified adjuncts due to this limitations.
I'll support this but ideally there should be NO limits on what a qualified, capable adjunct can teach. If an adjunct can handle 4 classes at one school - let them! Who suffers in this scenario aside from the adjunct? Certainly not the students!
I believe that we should be able to teach a full load and, if full, then we should be able to opt into health insurance and other benefits. Thanks!