The Good Enough Professor

Saving the humanities, one undergraduate at a time.

04 May 2016

An Interesting Thing Happened on the Way to Graduation...

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Last year, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign started collecting information on what all its graduating seniors were planning to...
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01 May 2016

Faculty Union Success

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Well. After a nail-biter of a day, this evening, NTFC Local 6546 tentatively agreed to a full contract with the UIUC administration. Furt...
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29 April 2016

Also: Vuvuzelas (Can We Get Some by Monday?)

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Day 2 of NTFC Local 6546's second strike.   (Read about Day 1 with backstory here .) It's the fourth day we've set up and m...
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28 April 2016

Inside Illinois? A House Divided Against Itself

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Updating with my thumbs from the picket line: the Provost's CORRECT email is feser@illinois.edu. Day 1 of NTFC Local 6546's second...
27 April 2016

Reasons Why You Should Support Striking NTTs

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This evening members of NTFC Local 6546, the union representing non-tenure-track faculty at the U of Illinois, voted overwhelmingly in fav...
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Let's Review: Faculty Working Conditions are Student Learning Conditions, Unless You're Downstate

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Current state of play at the University of Illinois mediation with NTFC Local 6546 (NTT faculty), according to an email to the union members...

Want a Fair Contract? STFU

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It's an interesting bargaining strategy. First, Int. Provost Feser explained that we can gain shared governance through shared governanc...
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