On the same day The New York Times printed an article with national scope about the decline of tenured professors in colleges across America, the union that represents CUNY employees staged a second installment of their “Campaign of Outrage” regarding the short changing of adjunct professor pay.

Complete with turkey costumes and turkey whistles, they attempted to deliver a Thanksgiving turkey to Baruch President Kathleen Waldron, who was not available to accept it. “Adjuncts” can hold various positions within a university, but the key piece of information is that they are part-time contracted employees. They are hired for a specific period of time - in the case of lecturers, usually a semester. They do not enjoy any assurance of continuous employment; there is no seniority for adjuncts.

Because their employment is not secured by tenure, no adjunct would speak on the record for this article. The “Campaign of Outrage” concerns a policy whereby Baruch and four other CUNY schools pay 2/3 of the normal weekly salary to adjunct professors for the 15th week of class, finals week.

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