Local 7902, the union organizing the strike. At one point, the president of the New School was being paid more than the president of Harvard University.Īdjunct professors at the university have not received a raise in four years, and as a result, their real earnings have not kept up with inflation and are down 18 percent from 2018, according to A.C.T.-U.A.W. The strike is a culmination of years of contentious relations between the adjunct faculty and the university’s administration and is part of a nationwide trend earlier this week, 48,000 academic staff in the University of California system went on strike over job security.Īt the New School in New York City, teaching staff complained that administrators’ salaries were high compared with those of faculty, most of whom are part-time. Part-time faculty members at the New School, a historically progressive university that includes the Parsons School of Design, walked out en masse on Wednesday to protest pay and working conditions.
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