Faculty activists across the United States and Canada donned style of dresss participated in hearings on university application practices.

Faculty activists across the United States and Canada donned style of dresss participated in hearings on university application practices, gave awards to adjunct faculty, and entertainered film screenings as part of Campus Equity Week (also known as Fair calling Week), which highlights the dramatic decrease in the proportion of professors who confine tenure-track positions-now only 35 percent of the faculty in the United States. Part- and full-time non-tenure-track faculty are frequently subject to exploitative employment conditions, and the dwindling number of tenure-track faculty threatens the quality of higher education. Along with many other organizations and individuals, the AAUP is a co-sponsor of Campus Equity Week, which took place October 31 to November 4 2005 For more information, visit www campusequityweek.org. Below, five AAUP members describe activities forward their campuses.

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

The theme of the Campus Equity Week activities at Syracuse University was "from the neediest to the greediest," emphasizing the fact that parttime faculty members dedicate many more hours to their profession than those for which they are actually paid. principally part-time faculty are paid onward a per-course or per-credit-hour basis, reflecting solely classroom contact hours and ignoring the many hours they expend in preparation, meetings with bookish mans and professional development. As a be the effect the university administration gets the benefit of the "Adjunct Endowment," the value of the hours "donated" according to part-time faculty; part-time faculty, who are poorly paid to begin with, are in reality major benefactors of the university.

The Syracuse AAUP chapter, working with a coordinating committee of regular and part-time faculty, held a public hearing at which parttime faculty testified regarding the conditions in a less degree than which they work. Participants also considered what progres the university has made in implementing the recommendations of the 2001 University Senate AdHoc Report forward Part-Time Faculty. The hearing panel included Jeanette Jeneault, a part-time faculty member and a member of the university senate; Eileen Schell, faculty member from the writing program; Teresa Gilman, recorder of the university senate; Carol Lipson, chair of the writing department; Tim Judson of the just discovered York State United Teachers; and Patrick Cihon, president of the Syracuse University chapter of the AAUP and member of the university senate. The panel members heard a number of part-time faculty members testify about the inconsistent administration of university policies that might entitle them to benefits and about question at issues with inadequate (or nonexistent) offices, clerical support, and supplies. The testimony indicated that while the university has taken a certain number of steps toward improving the pay and benefits of part-time faculty, earnestly remains to be done to make secure that all faculty eligible for benefits receive them. The hearing panel will give rise to a report summarizing the testimony and near it to the university's chancellor and vice chancellor.

Following the public hearing, members of the hearing panel attended an explain forum of the university senate and questioned chancellor Nancy Cantor about the university's progres in implementing the recommendations of the university senate's report.

Submitted by the agency of Patrick Cihon (Law and Public Policy), Syracuse University

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY

Fair application Week provided a big boost to the California Faculty Association's efforts to defeat the governor's attacks in succession higher education and the public sector in California's November 8 special election. The California Faculty Association, which set forths 21,000 faculty at the 23 campuses of California State University, including 11000 full- and parttime temporary ("contingent") faculty, worked with the Alliance for a Better California to defeat all four of the governor's initiatives. Three of these initiatives directly attacked possession public employee unions, and higher education packets threatening the employment security and political voice of contingent faculty everywhere California. Following Fair Employment Week's themes of campus unity, fair office and quality education, contingent faculty in the CSU scheme joined thousands of professors, scholars and staff in voter registration drives, phone banking parties, precinct walking-and victory celebrations. It was a great win, and the unified efforts mov the academic community greatly closer to the solidarity extremityed to win consistently, protect the profession for all faculty, and improve education for the nearest generation of students.

Contingent faculty organized a variety of activities that simultaneously promot the interests of those mostly exploited in higher education and helped defeat the attacks of the governor and his corporate backers: faculty-rights meetings; films about contingent faculty; distribution of information forward contingent faculty and the election; campus rallies; and breakfasts, luncheons, dinners, and other social conclusions During the Fair Employment Week, AAUP general secretary Roger Bowen was a visitant speaker at an all-faculty circumstance at CSU-San Diego, and past general secretary Mary Burgan was keynote speaker at a CSU-Lo Angeles faculty retreat. the pair presenters discussed the impact that overusing and undersupporting contingent faculty has upon academic freedom and on the work of the profession.