Outsourced in Michigan - Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed

Colleges and universities have outsourced lots of services in the past several decades, from food preparation and delivery to bookstores to sanitation. But to many academics it is taboo to even consider outsourcing the faculty. Not in Michigan. In recent years, a handful of community colleges in that state have outsourced the recruitment and hiring of adjunct instructors – who make up the overwhelming majority of the community college teaching force – to an educational staffing company. Just last week, the faculty union at a sixth institution, Jackson College, signed a collective bargaining agreement allowing EDUStaff to take over adjunct hiring and payroll duties. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/07/21/colleges-assign-adjunct-hiring-third-party#sthash.sQYG3CgI.dpbs