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Pittsburgh Adjuncts to Mark Campus Equity Week

MEDIA ADVISORY

Nationwide Week of Activism to Raise Awareness for Contingent Faculty’s Low Wages, Lack of Benefits

Dozens of members of the United Steelworkers-affiliated Adjunct Faculty Association (AFA-USW) will hold events on their Pittsburgh campuses next week to raise awareness of adjunct professors’ poverty-level wages, lack of health care and permanent part-time status.

The AFA-USW includes adjunct faculty from Duquesne and Point Park universities, the University of Pittsburgh, the Community College of Allegheny County and other Pittsburgh-area schools. The group will be participating in the national Campus Equity Week, a series of local actions that together call widespread attention to the unfair conditions under which thousands of contingent faculty work ... more

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