Commentary: Administration must support fair wage for all faculty
The administration’s business model includes relying on public tax dollars to subsidize their low wages and unfair contracts.
The administration’s business model includes relying on public tax dollars to subsidize their low wages and unfair contracts.
How can we feed the world without killing the planet? For many, food security is our primary environmental problem.
As with so many aspects of global warming, however, last year’s forecasts are often upended by this year’s science, generally in the direction of an acceleration of trends toward a much hotter planet that will be inhospitable to civilization as we know it.
For most of the history of higher education, the humanities were the foundation of a college degree, not a marginal element squeezed in—or worse, “gotten out of the way,” to use the all too common parlance about ICC courses on campus.
It is manifestly untrue that subjects related to diversity and the struggle to create a pluralistic society don’t come up in the history department.
“Many have been literally crawling in the dirt as beggars, and then they get a PET and are truly mobile for the first time.”
Ithaca College’s part-time faculty are going to be voting on whether to unionize in a few weeks.
Thank you for the coverage of Earth Week on campus and especially of the permaculture demonstration site. I would like to clarify one part of the story, however. Somehow lost in the interview with me was my statement that the lion’s share of the credit goes to the students and above all to Karryn Olson-Ramanujan.…