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The first time I took a Path train it was like stumbling across another New York, a city just under, or to the side of, the one I knew. It happened one day late in winter, [...]

Recent data demonstrate that faculty across the country are unable to make ends meet. Despite ever-rising tuition, nearly a third of part-time faculty are living below or [...]

This coming Halloween, the contract between the University of California and its thousands of lecturers, represented by the University Council of the American Federation of [...]

I’d rather die on an Amtrak, in a way, than live on one. Commuting on the toilet seat in the locked little room all the way down to Baltimore and back—between the two Penn Stations, which are about 3 hours from each other. I had so many fights with that one mousey conductor. He picked on me. Not because I look poor, but because I look like I don’t have to work no more. [...]

"The irony of adjuncting is being alienated labor while teaching future alienated laborers about Alienated Labor." [...]

This is now the consensus of accreditors, faculty organizations, disciplinary and field organizations, higher education researchers, organized higher education labor, and even the Association of Governing Boards [...]

“It is crucial to be courageous because it’s contagious, and even if we don’t win, being able to successfully resist, I think it has a spillover effect.” [...]

Boston, South Station. Hugging the duffle bag against my chest, I walk and count them silently.   I can feel six of them in there, poking out at me. The yogurts complain, [...]