Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor

A grassroots coalition of activists working for contingent faculty: adjunct, part-time, non-tenured, and graduate teaching faculty. We seek to bring greater awareness to the precarious situation for contingent faculty in higher education, organize for action, and build solidarity among our colleagues.

 

Congrès COCAL X

10-12 août 2012

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Bâtiment de STUNAM
(Photo de David Milroy)

 

À Mexico

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Bienvenue à COCAL

COCAL is a coalition of higher education activists from the North American continent. We are united in working to improve working conditions at colleges and universities for contingent faculty, including adjunct, part-time, and non-tenure track instructors, and graduate teaching assistants.

 

COCAL holds biennial conferences with presentations on organizing faculty, gaining equitable working conditions, legislative solutions, and the effects of globalization on higher education. The next conference, COCAL X, will be held August 10-13, 2012 in Mexico City.

 

COCAL members also hold Campus Equity Week (CEW) every year in Canada and every other year in the United States.CEW aims to bring more public awareness to working conditions faced by many contingent faculty: low wages and benefits, lack of academic freedom, unpredictability of assignments, and arbitrary treatment.