It is clear that higher education is under attack. The Trump administration has frozen funding for science, from cancer research to reproductive care; has hamstrung student financial aid programs; has stripped colleges and universities of diversity, equity and inclusion programming; has strangled affirmative action designed to expand access to college; and is demanding that some institutions sign a “compact” that forces them to adopt Trump’s ideology in exchange for federal funding.

On Nov. 7, students, faculty and staff rose up at more than 100 universities and colleges across the country and

We hope all our members are enjoying and having a productive summer.

Attached is the AAFMCC Newsletter for Summer of 2016. You should have received an announcement through your MCC email explaining that we have now gone green and are sending out the newsletter electronically through email, posting it here on our site and on our facebook page.

Enjoy your summer!

nl2016b.pdf

Attached is a.pdf of the second annual AAFMCC Newsletter. We have also mailed out a copy to all adjunct at Macomb Community College - please look for it to arrive after July 1.

For all our social media saavy members - follow "like" us on facebook at: Association of Adjunct Faculty of Macomb Community College.

We hope that everyone is enjoying the Summer season and hope you visit the site for any upcoming news/events happening withing our local.

http://aafmcc.mi.aft.org/files/nl0715_0.pdf

Recently we mailed out our summer newsletters to all adjuncts.  Attached is a .pdf of the newsletter in case you did not get one or want to have it for future reference.

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You will need Adobe Reader to view the file. It is free to download and will allow you to view any .pdf file. Please go to:  get.adobe.com/reader  and you will be instructed to download Adobe Reader to your computer.

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.