by Mike Hall, May 27, 2008

Our good friends over at FACE Talk, one of the best organizing-focused blogs, have a new home—a face-lift, so to speak. They are now part of the AFT’s Faculty and College Excellence (FACE) website, which itself has received a new look.

With a roster of regular bloggers from campuses around the country, FACE Talk brings first-hand accounts and comments about the latest organizing campaigns, bargaining, administration outrages, legislative action and more from the world of higher education.

FACE is a national campaign that AFT Higher Education started last year to address the academic staffing crisis in higher education. With years of shrinking support for higher education, support for instruction has eroded as well. Now, fewer than 30 percent of college faculty members are tenured, and more than half of all undergraduate courses in all sectors are taught by contingent faculty.

The FACE campaign has two prongs to address those trends: bringing compensation equity to part-time/adjunct faculty, nontenure-track full-time faculty and graduate employees and working to rebuild the pool of full-time tenured faculty.

Along with FACE Talk, the new site also has:

• Links to blogs and media outlets that cover part-time/adjunct faculty issues;

• Contract updates and bargaining language for dealing with the issues;

• FACE stories—true-life, first-person accounts of life as Freeway Flyer or Roads Scholar. Truth is stranger than fiction.

Visit the FACE website and sign up to receive the “FACE Bulletin,” read more about FACE or add a comment to today’s FACE Talk post.

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