Campus Equity Week
It’s fitting that we celebrate Campus Equity Week during the last full week of October, right before Halloween. While students are out trying to scare each other on this day every year, contingent faculty face scary circumstances that last year-round.
This includes carrying overwhelming student debt, no offices on their campuses to meet with students one-on-one, no office hours for students, and having to travel between multiple colleges and campuses each day.
These professors work just as hard as their full-time colleagues to shape the minds of the nation’s future teachers, scientists, doctors and leaders, but because of their job status they face enormous obstacles.
Since 1999, Campus Equity Week has been a week to raise awareness and fight to fix these issues faced by contingent educators throughout the United States. This year we are happy to have an ally in this fight in Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]. Sen. Durbin recently introduced the Adjunct Faculty Loan Fairness Act of 2015, a bill that would immensely help relief some of the student loan debt carried by these adjuncts by allowing them access to the Public Loan Forgiveness Program—just like their full-time colleagues.
We’ve all had great professors who’ve made a lasting impact on our lives, and as we wrap Campus Equity Week I ask you to make a lasting impact on their lives and support the Adjunct Faculty Loan Fairness Act of 2015.Campus Equity Week - Lily's Blackboard: