Commentary: Class issues absent from higher education
Like many private colleges, the students from wealth families are overrepresented at IC, while lower middle class and poor people are underrepresented.
Like many private colleges, the students from wealth families are overrepresented at IC, while lower middle class and poor people are underrepresented.
We call on the administration to ensure that adjunct faculty per-credit pay for teaching is equitably based on that of full-time contingent faculty.
The administration’s business model includes relying on public tax dollars to subsidize their low wages and unfair contracts.
Ithaca College’s part-time faculty are going to be voting on whether to unionize in a few weeks.
Ithaca locals and students took to the streets Tuesday opposite the office of Rep. Tom Reed, R-N.Y., on East Martin Luther King, Jr. Street to voice their opposition to a government shutdown.