Career paths for lecturers necessary to support student success
Aishwarya Jayadeep/Senior Staff
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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For educational, occupational stability, grant lecturers fair contracts
UC AFFAIRS: It’s as easy as ‘1-2-3’: UC must overhaul its gig-based educational model to adequately compensate lecturers
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 must protect lecturers when cutting costs
CAMPUS AFFAIRS: UC hiring freeze threatens lecturers, would harm instructional quality
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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Faculty diversity starts with adequate pay
UNIVERSITY AFFAIRS: Lecturers, GSIs deserve job security, benefits.
Poor working conditions for lecturers and graduate students are huge roadblocks on the path to bringing in diverse, competent educators.
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UC lecturers deserve better job security, more respect as UC faculty members
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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UC Berkeley needs to uphold rights of lecturers
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 teach without contract as negotiations with university continue
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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Protesters rally for job security, benefits, compensation for lecturers
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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