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NFM in the News:

Local, Regional and National Press:

"Higher Education Takes a Hit"
by Gabriel Arana, The Nation 
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090413/arana

"Adjunct Instructors Fill Void at Area Colleges"
by Sherri Dauskurdas, The Business Ledger (Chicago)
http://www.thebusinessledger.com/Home/Archives/CommentaryViewpoints/tabid/86/newsid415/637/Adjunct-instructors-fill-void-at-area-colleges/Default.aspx


"Adjuncts Get Organized"
by Gene Russo at naturejobs.com March 11 2009
http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/2009/090312/full/nj7235-245a.html

Higher Ed and Campus Press:

"An Activist Adjunct Shoulders the Weight of New Advocacy Group"                                                            
CHE Sept. 10, 2009 by Audrey Williams June
http://chronicle.com/article/An-Activist-Adjunct-Shoulders/48348/                                                             

"Punishing a Whistle Blower?"                                                            
IHE August 25, 2009 by Scott Jaschik
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/08/25/davey

"Shooting the Messenger?"                                                            
IHE June 12, 2009 by Ben Eisen
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/06/12/adjunct

"Instructors Off Tenure Track Mark Today as 'New Faculty Majority Day'"
CHE April 30, 2009 by Audrey Williams June                                                                                                          http://chronicle.com/article/Instructors-Off-Tenure-Track/42833/

"Adjunct Committee Reflects Local Concern"
Baylor U student newspaper 3/4/09
http://www.baylor.edu/lariat/news.php?action=story&story=56830

"New Voice for Adjuncts"
IHE Feb 24 2009 by Scott Jaschik
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/02/23/qt#192478

"New Group Aims to Be National Voice for Adjunct Faculty Members"
CHE Newsblog 2-23-09 by Audrey June
http://chronicle.com/news/article/?id=6018

"Creating a National Voice for Adjuncts"
IHE Feb 20 2009 by Scott Jaschik
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/02/20/adjuncts

Blogs and Web Sites:

The New Faculty Majority (maintained by NFM Communication Committee Member Steve Street)
http://thenewfacultymajority.blogspot.com/

"Adjuncts are Mad as Hell and They're Not Going to Take This Anymore!" (Adjunct Law Prof Blog)                                                                                                                         http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/adjunctprofs/2009/09/adjuncts-are-mad-as-hell-and-theyre-not-going-to-take-this-anymore.html
 

Lecturers' Employee Organization (U Michigan)
http://leounion.org/news/157-fixed-term-faculty-band-together
 

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)   http://voices.merlot.org/forum/topics/new-faculty-majority

Oregon COCAL http://web.me.com/barry.edwards3/Site/Oregon_COCAL/Entries/2009/3/20_The_New_Faculty_Majority.html

Lesko Blog
http://www.adjunctnation.com/blogs/lesko-blog/?tag=keith-hoeller

The Kept-Up Academic Librarian
http://keptup.typepad.com/academic/2009/04/adjunct-faculty-as-the-solution-to-economic-challenges.html

Organization of American Historians
http://www.oah.org/pubs/nl/2009may/rogers.html