The Ithacan

The Department of Art History writes to express our deep appreciation and support for our part-time and contingent faculty members.

While administrators claim that they strive to make this campus a more inclusive community, they easily expose their hypocrisy when they neglect their own faculty members and students.

In the event that part-time and contingent faculty hold a legal strike, the CSCRE will not seek to replace them in order to fill our instructional needs.

The college is committed to negotiating a collective bargaining agreement. The parties are meeting, and progress is occurring at each session.

If we are to realize fully IC’s vision of a “student-centered learning community,” we must ensure that all instructors are compensated equitably.

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 IC administration’s Walmart model of higher education does not sit well with many students, staff and faculty on this campus.

Let us then continue to model more moral equitable arrangements for all of those who educate our students.

If we are to realize fully IC’s vision of a “student-centered learning community,” we must ensure that all instructors are compensated equitably.

For over a year, the college has been in a bargaining battle with two contingent faculty unions and the prospect of a strike is looming.

We are disheartened and frustrated at the adversarial tone, misleading allegations, and willingness to disrupt the learning environment for our students.

Our students deserve a stable body of faculty who are compensated fairly for our hard work and dedication.