JANUARY 2025
Funding
Happy New Year from the adjunct rep team! We hope that your holiday season was joyful and that you had a restful and relaxing break. We are excited about the upcoming semester and look forward to enforcing the contract, educating our members, and organizing with you to make our unit even stronger.
Keep scrolling to read about these important topics:
Adjunct Technology Fund
Adjunct Professional Development Fund
Upcoming Events and Important Dates
Links to Full Contract, Contract Highlights, and Our Website
As one of the union’s wins during the last bargaining session, NYU is giving adjuncts money for the purchase of teaching-related technological equipment. This is an excellent opportunity to upgrade or revamp the technology you use for teaching!
We will begin accepting applications on Wednesday, January 15th. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. They are subject to review and approval from the university. The maximum amount that an applicant can request is $500. Applications will not be accepted or processed prior to January 15th.
You can find a description and an application form here. Please send your applications to techfund7902@gmail.com.
Note:
To qualify for the grant you must be a member of the bargaining unit in Academic Year 2024-2025. This means that you must teach at least 40 contact hours in the current academic year or provide at least 75 hours of individualized instruction or tutoring in a semester within the current academic year. Additionally, you must have an appointment for the spring or summer semester in which the tech will be used.
In the subject line, please write “Tech Fund Application” followed by your last name and first name. (eg: Tech Fund Application - Doe, Jane)
Your N# can be found on the back of your NYU ID card.
In explaining how the technology is teaching-related on the application form, please relate it as closely as possible to your NYU appointments.
Be sure that the total expense and amount requested sections are both filled out. The amount requested should not exceed $500.
Remember to sign your application document in the appropriate spot. Also, if submitting before the start of the spring semester, be sure to date your application January 21, 2025.
The fund will not last forever! Apply while you can!
The Professional Development Fund for the spring and summer semesters will become available on the first day of the spring semester, January 21, 2025. NYU Adjunct Faculty who are members of the adjunct union may apply through this application form for a grant to support attendance at an academic conference, meeting, or other relevant professional development activity.
There is $100,000 available for activities taking place during the spring and summer semesters. These funds are divided proportionally based on the number of adjuncts at each school. Funds are first come, first served so submit your application as soon as possible, starting January 21, 2025!
Note:
Adjuncts may apply for up to $1,250 to support any activity that helps them develop professionally.
Adjunct faculty are eligible for one grant per academic year (September 1-August 31). They may not apply more than once, even if they didn’t use up the entire $1250 allotted.
To qualify for the grant you must be a member of the bargaining unit in Academic Year 2024-2025. This means that you must teach at least 40 contact hours in the current academic year or provide at least 75 hours of individualized instruction or tutoring in a semester within the current academic year. Additionally, you must have an appointment in the spring or summer semester in which the activity occurs.
The professional development activity that you are applying for must occur in the semester in which you are applying for it.
Here is a list of noteworthy dates. Click on the designated links for details. View our ACT UAW calendar here.
Wednesday January 15
Technology Fund applications can be submitted (see above)
Tuesday, January 21
First Day of Spring semester
Professional Development Fund applications can be submitted (see above)
Thursday, January 23 - 7:00-8:30pm
UAW Local 7902 Special Member Gathering (Location: Sixth Street Community Center in Alphabet City)
In early November we held a local-wide gathering to process what the presidential election will mean for us as workers, educators, and members of diverse communities. After January 20th we will start to see major changes at the federal level directly impacting higher education, our workplace rights, and individual rights. Join us as we continue our conversation, become better acquainted with each other, and build affinity groups around urgent issues. We will meet off-campus, at the Sixth Street Community Center in Alphabet City. The Local will provide food and beverages.
No previous organizing or political experience is required– only a willingness to show up and be part of the collective work.
Friday, January 24 - 3:00-4:30pm
NYU Member Town Hall
Informal Discussion about Planning for 2025 and Beyond for the NYU Unit (Location: 721 Broadway, Dean's Conference Room, 12th Floor and Zoom)
As we reflect on the election results and the impact it will have on the labor movement, we want to hear from you, the members, about your concerns and your thoughts on how we, as unionized members of the NYU adjunct faculty, can prepare for the challenging road ahead and develop the community we need to remain resilient and build on what we have achieved.
Please join us in an informal discussion about what we can do to build unity and strength amidst the challenges in the upcoming years. This meeting will be hybrid.
Food and refreshments will be provided.
If you have something that you would like to share in next month’s newsletter, please send it to mail@actuaw.org
Have you signed your union membership card?
If you haven’t done so, now is the time.
Download the card here, fill out the pdf and add your e-signature in the two designated areas and then email the completed form with your signatures at both the middle and at the bottom of the form to mail@actuaw.org and nyu@actuaw.org.
Note: Your N# can be found on the back of your NYU ID.
If you have any difficulties filling out the pdf, email staff organizer Julia Geiger at jgeiger@actuaw.org.
Union membership is not automatic.
If you are an adjunct or part-time faculty member who works 40+ contact hours per academic year (September 1-August 31), or 75+ contact hours of individual instruction or tutoring during a semester, you are eligible to join the union.
The payment of either union dues or an agency fee is a condition of continued employment at NYU.
