Nontenure track faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago announced their intention Tuesday to organize with the Art Institute of Chicago Workers United, the union representing staff at both the Michigan Avenue museum and its school.
In an open letter released Tuesday and signed by almost 200 adjunct professors and lecturers at the school, employees voiced concerns about compensation, job security and benefits.“Our working conditions are intolerable. We write in protest of a two-tier system of compensation and benefits that is creating a permanent underclass of contingent faculty,” the faculty wrote.
“When part-time faculty are not sufficiently supported, the entire institution suffers,” the letter read. “Staff are continually engaged in training and assisting disoriented new hires; full-time faculty often have little idea who their colleagues are or how sharply their workloads and compensation diverge; students are taught and mentored by exhausted people, doing too much for too little.
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