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Check out our newsletter, GRUF Times. This issue focuses on adjunct faculty.

PATFA is promoting Adjunct Awareness Week, Feb. 23-28. Adjuncts around the University of Maine System are finding "A" buttons in their mailboxes, and we encourage you to wear them.

In a news release we are distributing around Maine, PATFA Vice President Jim Seymour writes:

"Few college students, much less the public, know that most first-year and sophomore classes are taught by fully accredited professors who earn significantly less than full-time faculty members, with no employment security and scant access to benefits such as health care.

Feb. 19, 2015 | Auburn Reporter | Guest Opinion, Mark Millbauer, President of United Faculty of Green River 

There’s another way.

Our state’s two-year colleges (CTCs) are valuable to our community. They serve as engines bolstering the economy by providing the road to success for thousands of our citizens and others.

But as Green River College President Eileen Ely and Trustee Pete Lewis pointed out last week (“Show your support for higher ed”, guest opinion, Reporter), our colleges are underfunded, and the situation is getting worse. [read more]

AFT Local 762 is helping children improve their reading skills one book at a time by partnering with teachers, administrators and First Book.

The Delaware salary schedule for aides has increased as of Jan. 1, 2015. Find out what it means to you.

AFT Federation Union Local 762's current collective bargaining agreement is now posted on the website. Click here to read it or download a PDF.

Vermont higher education faces the problem of chronic underfunding of its public postsecondary institutions that results in inadequate resources for instruction and academic support while creating an overreliance on tuition dollars. This problem has grown since a decision in the 1980s to pursue a "high tuition / high aid" approach for state funding, coupled with subsequent overall state disinvestment.

Read the latest news happening with your coworkers in Edinburg AFT here!

January/February 2015 Snippets Newsletter:

http://corningta.ny.aft.org/files/2015janfebsnippets_0.pdf