Wellesley Lecture Postponed Due to Faculty Strike. Stay Tuned.

Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Are Striking at Wellesley College

For the past two weeks, non-tenure-track faculty at Wellesley College in Massachusetts have been on strike to fight for a first contract. Jacobin spoke to two members of the organizing committee who say the college is refusing to bargain in good faith. Faculty and students picket at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, on March 31, 2025. (Matthew J. Lee / the Boston Globe via Getty Images) On Thursday, March 27, non-tenure-track facul…

Wellesley Lecture Postponed Due to Faculty Strike. Stay Tuned.

Only yesterday, I posted a notice about the planned lecture by Dr. Azar Nafisi at Wellesley College on April 15. Overnight, we agreed that the lecture would be postponed because of a non-tenure track faculty strike on campus. I fervently hoped the strike would be finished before the lecture, but the two sides are currently not close to a settlement. Non-tenure track faculty voted to unionize as the Wellesley Organized Academic Workers, or WOAW w…