AAUP-AFT Part-Time Lecturers

Professional Development Funds

Professional Development Funds are a significant benefit to PTLs. We encourage you, in applying for funds, to think outside the box. In the past, funds have been approved for PTLs to attend national and international conferences, to present papers, to pursue research and to purchase classroom materials. All PTLs are eligible for this benefit.

Our new contract sets aside $300,000 for professional development. This year, funds will be distributed in two cycles, both fall and spring, to accommodate the previous academic year, 2018-2019, and the current academic year, 2019-2020. (No funds were

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Thanks to the work of our union, the salaries for Part-Time Lecturers at Rutgers are now among the highest in the nation.

Thanks to the work of our union, all Part-Time Lecturers at Rutgers now have the opportunity to advance. This career path, which comes with significant raises and job protections, was a hard-fought gain in our most recent contract. This move redefines the structure of part-time employment at the university, and offers us a solid foundation for future gains.

As your elected leaders, we remain dedicated to fair pay, job security and access to health benefits. Please reach out

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In-depth discussion of new contractual provisions for salary increases, opportunities for advancement, professional development funds and job protections for Rutgers Part-Time Lecturers with Teresa Politano and David Chapman.

Randi Weingarten at a Massachusetts high school

Summer is upon us, and parents, children and teachers are winding down from what has been an exhausting and fully operational school year—the first since the devastating pandemic. The long-lasting impact of COVID-19 has affected our students’ and families’ well-being and ignited the politics surrounding public schools. All signs point to the coming school year unfolding with the same sound and fury, and if extremist culture warriors have their way, being even more divisive and stressful.

In AFT President Randi Weingarten’s latest New York Times column, she describes what it is exactly that unions do. Though unions are the most popular they have been in decades, anti-union sentiment still thrives in red states and across the nation. “Several years ago, The Atlantic ran a story whose headline made even me, a labor leader, scratch my head: ‘Union Membership: Very Sexy,’” Weingarten writes in the column. “The gist was that higher wages, health benefits and job security—all associated with union membership—boost one’s chances of getting married. Belonging to a union doesn’t actually guarantee happily ever after, but it does help working people have a better life in the here and now.” Click through to read the full column.

In defense of public education

Randi Weingarten and NYC teacher Tamara Simpson

Attacks on public education in America by extremists and culture-war peddling politicians have reached new heights (“lows” may be more apt), but they are not new. The difference today is that the attacks are intended not just to undermine public education but to destroy it.

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New Procedures for PTL Evaluation and Advancement

The newly ratified contract negotiated between the Rutgers Part-Time Lecturer Faculty Chapter and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey contains, for the first time, provisions for evaluation procedures and subsequent advancement to different levels of PTL employment. Under this new system, all PTLs will be evaluated in some way every semester. However, this evaluation process is not meant to be punitive; it is an attempt on the part of both the Rutgers administration and the PTLFC to ensure that the quality of teaching remains high throughout all types and levels of

Professional Development Funds

Message From the President and Vice President

Opportunities for Advancement: PTL Town Hall Video

Smears vs. solutions

What unions do

In defense of public education

Membership Application

Opportunities for Advancement Presentation

New Procedures for PTL Evaluation and Advancement