Tag: adjunct faculty

The student-run grassroots organization Lordsburg Liberation urges the University to reform its inadequate ICE policy in response to escalating aggression of immigration enforcement in the surrounding areas.

I am a graduate of the University of La Verne and have been an adjunct faculty here for 23 years. My brother and daughter both are graduates of ULV and the school has long held, as the school song says, “a dear favored spot in our hearts.” With this in mind, I am writing to bring to light what I feel is a serious issue at the University.

As of July 1, adjunct faculty have been required to clock in and clock out in real time to record their work hours – from teaching their classes to meeting with students, to preparing for class at home. 

The Faculty Senate on Monday unanimously approved a resolution to support the University’s adjunct faculty, who are hoping the University will transition them from hourly pay via a timecard system to contracts, or per-class flat rate pay. 

University of La Verne adjunct professors will not move to a time card system in January, as officials had announced last month.

Faculty concerns about the future of tenure at the College of Law and its implications for the University, combined with questions about a to-be-announced change in pay structure for the University’s underpaid adjuncts point to a disturbing trend – of devaluing educators and by extension – education.