1. Kirtland CC Shelves Idea to Privatize Adjunct Faculty Members
(FACE Talk/FACE Talk)

...ecializes in placing substitute teachers. The 39 full-time faculty at KCC are represented by the AFT Michigan, but adjuncts have no union. KCC Federation of Teachers vice president Kevin Baughn...

2. The Research Keeps Coming In
(FACE Talk/FACE Talk)

...unity College Survey of Student Engagement, from the Center for the Education of Women at the University of Michigan, from John Bound, Michael Lovenheim, and Sarah Turner (for the National Bureau of E...

3. Higher Ed's Race to the Bottom
(FACE Talk/FACE Talk)

...0,000 a year would be furloughed four days of pay and  top administrators would take a 10-day pay cut. Michigan's governor is bracing residents for 25 percent cuts to state public universitie...

4. A Year-end Welcome to All Who Joined Us This Year
(FACE Talk/FACE Talk)

...Cuyamaca Community College District in CA Graduate Employees at Florida State University Lecturers at Michigan State University Graduate Employees at Central Michigan University Adjunct Fa...

5. Eastern Michigan Part-time Faculty Seek a Union Voice
(FACE Talk/FACE Talk)

Part-time lecturers at Eastern Michigan University have filed for a representation election with the Michigan Employment Relations Commission (MERC). A majority of these lecturers have joined the Ea

6. Graduate employees unite!
(FACE Talk/FACE Talk)

...raduate employees affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers will be descending upon East Lansing, Michigan for four days of training, information sharing, and networking, all part of the All...

7. Lions and Badgers and Unions, Oh My!
(FACE Talk/FACE Talk)

...d once you start looking at the institutions where graduate employees and contingent faculty are organized (Michigan, University of California, NYU, University of Washington, Kansas, Illinois, and on ...

8. Support Striking Faculty at Oakland University
(FACE Talk/FACE Talk)

...agreement and classes have resumed.  Thanks to all who showed their support for the faculty. AFT Michigan and the Michigan labor community are actively supporting a striking American Associ...

9. Contracting out adjuncts? Don’t go there!
(FACE Talk/FACE Talk)

...ave to make payments to the state retirement fund. As a story in Inside Higher Ed describes, for adjuncts, Michigan requires colleges and universities to put 16.94 percent of payroll cost into the st...

10. Singing Our Tune
(FACE Talk/FACE Talk)

We see in today's Washington Post report on President Obama's Michigan announcement signs that community college leaders share the FACE campaign's concerns about the need to target resou

11. AFT Calls for Faculty Involvement in New CC Initiative
(FACE Talk/FACE Talk)

... to offer support for the proposal, which the president unveiled in a speech at Macomb Community College in Michigan. The most effective way to develop and implement reforms and other improveme...

12. Western Michigan Instructors and Adjunct Faculty Vote Union
(FACE Talk/FACE Talk)

Today the instructors and adjunct faculty at Western Michigan University overwhelmingly voted for the Professional Instructors Organization (PIO) to represent them.  The Michigan Employment Rel

13. Michigan State Nontenure-Track Faculty Go Union
(FACE Talk/FACE Talk)

AFT Michigan has added another notch to its belt, as nontenure-track faculty at Michigan State University voted by a two-to-one margin for representation. The new union, the Union of Nontenure-Track

14. Grad Employees Stand Up for Their Rights at Central Michigan
(FACE Talk/FACE Talk)

Central Michigan University graduate assistants (GAs) have voted 152-21 to be represented by the Graduate Student Union. The unit of 450 teaching and administrative assistants is affiliated with AFT

15. Michigan Short-changes Lecturers
(FACE Talk/FACE Talk)

... below. Pop over and show some solidarity. The Lecturers' Employee Union/AFT at the University of Michigan says the university is playing fast and loose with their contract and with their me...

16. Does Michigan Heart Unions?
(FACE Talk/FACE Talk)

On Valentine’s eve, part-timers at Western Michigan University are showing their devotion to the rights and benefits a union can bring. The Professional Instructors Organization of WMU is fili

17. New Grad Union Files for Election in Michigan
(FACE Talk/FACE Talk)

Central Michigan University graduate assistants (GAs) filed for a union representation election with the Michigan Employment Relations Commission on Jan. 28. The unit of 550 graduate assistants is o

18. Retiring Tenure?
(FACE Talk/FACE Talk)

... the sort you see in airports. I started noticing this about ten years ago when I worked at a university in Michigan: Education on the fly; education with low (or no) overhead; open-air (or coffee-sho...

19. A Discussion about New Research on Academic Staffing
(FACE Talk/FACE Talk)

...Ed is reporting on some new research by occasional FACE Talk contributor, David Dobbie of the University of Michigan Graduate Employees Organization/AFT, and his colleague Ian Robinson of the Lecturer...

20. PBS Features Face-off on FACE
(FACE Talk/FACE Talk)

...a Schroeder and Bonnie Halloran, president of the Lecturers' Employee Organization at the University of Michigan, helped Erbe tell the background story of colleges' increasing reliance on and ...

21. A Resounding Win for Adjuncts at Henry Ford
(FACE Talk/FACE Talk)

...ustle of ballots piling up for the Henry Ford Community College Adjunct Faculty Organization (AFO) when the Michigan Employment Relations Commission counted them up May 7. The vote was a resounding 33...

22. Wayne State’s Union of Part-Time Faculty Gains Tentative Agreement
(FACE Talk/FACE Talk)

...faculty voted by a 90 percent majority for the union. The UPTF, which represents nearly 900 adjuncts at the Michigan university, is affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). Fo...

23. Heavy Handed Tactics at Wayne State
(FACE Talk/FACE Talk)

...____________________________ Union of Part-Time Faculty (UPTF) / www.uptf.org / 313-832-7902 / uptf@aftmichigan.org ...

24. Other Bills Aimed at Addressing Academic Staffing Issues
(FACE and Related Legislation/Related Legislation)

...e faculty who teach course loads equivalent to that of full-time faculty in a calendar year. MICHIGAN Enacted Legislation: House Bill 4232 (2007) Makes part-ti...

25. Michigan Grad Employees Lift All Boats
(FACE Talk/FACE Talk)

The Graduate Employees Organization/AFT at the University of Michigan pulled off a major coup last week, using a well-timed job action to convince administrators to reach a tentative agreement on a

26. Wayne State University Doesn’t Get It
(FACE Talk/FACE Talk)

...s to the university. No surprises there. But what is surprising is that a university in the heart of Michigan labor land can’t get its mind around that minimum concept of job security. WS...

27. Numbers to Help Tell the Story
(FACE Toolkit/Research and Data)

...ext of the report in .pdf format is available here. Center for the Education of Women, University of Michigan. (2007). "Making the best of both worlds: findings from a national institution...

28. Election Date Set for Henry Ford CC Adjunct Faculty
(FACE Talk/FACE Talk)

...adjuncts and AFO steering committee members An election date of April 15 has been established by the Michigan Employment Relations Commission (MERC) for Henry Ford Community College (HFCC) adju...

29. Medical and Retirement Benefits for Contingent Faculty
(FACE Bargaining/Medical and Retirement Benefits for Contingent Fac)

...deration contract here.   Lecturers'Employee Organization (LEO) At the University of Michigan, as stipulated in LEO's contract, every contingent faculty member who teaches a...

30. A Call for Students to Support Adjunct Faculty at Henry Ford CC
(FACE Talk/FACE Talk)

...an agreement is not reached by February 15th, the AFO and the administration will present their case to the Michigan Employment Relations Commission (MERC) in a hearing, that is similar to a court pro...