Career paths for lecturers necessary to support student success

Even when you love teaching, who wants to stick around at a job lacking such basic necessities? Most lecturers can’t afford to.
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Even when you love teaching, who wants to stick around at a job lacking such basic necessities? Most lecturers can’t afford to.
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The UC would collapse without lecturers. And yet, members of the University Council-American Federation of Teachers have been contractless for 18 months.
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UC Berkeley’s reputation may depend on the eminence of its tenured professors, but students’ daily experiences of campus tend to center far more around lecturers.
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Poor working conditions for lecturers and graduate students are huge roadblocks on the path to bringing in diverse, competent educators.
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Students and faculty both deserve better. Our next contract must reflect the importance of your education. Faculty equity is the best path to student success.
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From the perspective of students sitting in a classroom, instructors appear equal. In higher education, however, a two-tiered faculty system exists: tenure-track and nontenure-track positions. In the UC system, “lecturer” is the job title for most nontenure-track faculty, who are hired exclusively to teach and are at the bottom of
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Lecturers throughout the UC system are teaching without a contract, as negotiations continue between their union and the university’s negotiation team.
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Outside California Hall on Wednesday, approximately 100 lecturers, faculty members and students rallied to push the university to accept their proposals for lecturers’ job security, benefits and compensation.
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