Tracy Berger

From Stanford’s Creative Writing Lecturers: On August 21st, Stanford announced that it is terminating all Creative Writing Lecturers, starting in the summer of 2025, and returning the lectureships to a model of unsustainable teaching positions, where lecturers cycle through one-year, term-limited appointments. We call on Stanford to reverse the firing of the Jones Lecturers, to

From our colleagues at Temple Association of University Professionals (TAUP): On August 28th, after a year of negotiation, and a 12 hour marathon session, TAUP was ready to sign a Tentative Agreement for the faculty, librarians, and academic advisors at Temple University. Temple’s negotiation team chose to derail all progress made over our insistence on

From our colleagues at Teaching Assistants’ Association (TAA-Madison): For the past two decades, the University of Wisconsin System has been under attack: budget cuts combined with increased inflationary pressures have forced our faculty, staff, and students to do much more with much less. In this context many of our locals—including Green Bay, Oshkosh, Whitewater, River

From our colleagues at UC-AFT: Ed Walker, Chair of UCLA’s Sociology department, recently terminated lecturer Beth Ribet’s appointment. Beth Ribet is among a number of UCLA faculty with disabilities who use universal design principles when teaching. Universal design increases accessibility of education for students, particularly those with disabilities. UCLA clearly encourages faculty to use universal