RVCCAdjuncts

This. So much this. We feel you. RVCC in NJ serves two of the consistenly wealthiest counties(Somerset and Hunterdon) in the entire United States. A $24 per credit raise for adjuncts is nearly useless. #cola4adjuncts #adjunctlife #FairContractNow

Don't forget: Tomorrow, Tuesday, Oct. 26 at 6:45 p.m., @rweingarten and special guests are holding a student debt Facebook Live event to discuss changes to #PSLF, and how AFT can help you handle your student debt. 📺 facebook.com/AFTUnion

Stark disparities in school spending can be traced back to the amount of affordable rental housing in each school district, according to a new report by @bellwethered. edweek.org/leadership/is-…

TODAY IS THE LAST DAY to register to vote if you want to vote in the November NJ election for our governor. state.nj.us/state/election…

Today's #PSLF announcement has huge implications for the thousands of AFT members and millions of Americans struggling with student debt. Here are just a few of the people these changes will affect. 🧵

🗣Rebecca Givan: “We heard from unions around the country about what a progressive model it was, and how they were going to try to use it. It’s very sad that a program that was so promising was instead used to further entrench inequities.” chronicle.com/article/a-univ…

Every time I see a “it could be worse” argument or “this is normal” re: academia I just—UGH!!! Stop supporting institutions with your worse case scenarios, and start lifting your expectations to best practice. Unions for all.

For new troublemakers just getting started: when you're outraged, ask a question. "Just to be clear, you're asking grad students to attend classes so faculty don't have to?" "I don't understand, you want women and POC to do more unpaid labor?" "Why can't I write this?"

Apply this to how adjuncts are treated as well. Too often FT faculty utterly destroy the morale of adjuncts with just a few words. We watched it happen yesterday. The adjuncts knew it happened. FT went along on their merry way.

Important new benefit for @AFTunion members!

The first session of “Off the Page, Into the World,” the AFTNJ social justice committee’s virtual book forum, has been rescheduled for Oct. 20 at 4:30 p.m. All AFTNJ members are welcome to participate. Click here for more info and to register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

"If forgiveness is illusory, we have designed a repayment system that simply acts as a massive debt trap."

.@AFTunion is offering a session Monday, Sept. 20, to help focus on the mental, emotional and physical well-being of our educators. Registration ends tomorrow, so register today! sharemylesson.com/wellbeing

Call, get your pov recorded with her office, it matters >>

Thoughts: 1) think how class cuts across your faculty ranks and look really hard at what YOU do that is treating other workers in higher ed like dirt 2) if you are demanding solidarity from workers who have fewer job protections than you, see point 1 3) repeat as needed

It is time to compensate contingent faculty members for shared governance work, writes @gipperfish in the fall #Academe. bit.ly/2XdQ2Tf

Very cool! Project how the Build Back Better Act will impact your state's CC system

raritanvalleycc Let's try this again....#RVCC Welcome to the #FallSemester! #RaritanValleyCC

Want to solve the #highered job problems? We need 75% tenure track jobs in the Reconciliation Bill! Call Sen. Patty Murray, chair of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in the Senate: (202) 224-2621. Or email her staff: Kara_marchione@help.senate.gov. 1/2