The student explained that at that time he received a notice from his employer that encouraged him to reapply as a seasonal worker. “The last time I worked on campus was a single shift in September, after that there was just nothing,” said a student worker at NOVA to the WSWS. The financial fallout is resulting in catastrophic work and job loss for students and campus staff throughout Virginia. This follows after more than 1.4 million education jobs were axed in spring. According to the Department of Labor, last month saw mass layoffs of at least 350,000 education jobs nationwide, the result of budget cuts in the face of the loss of state revenue. The social austerity takes place in the midst of an economic crisis that has had an outsized impact on education workers. And during the time of the delay, we’re still accruing interest,” stated George Mason University President Gregory Washington to the Washington Post of Northam’s plan. This initiative, which was revealed last week, “delayed our payments, but we still have to make the payments. Rather than doing this, which might affect Virginia’s AAA-rated municipal bond rating, Northam has proposed schools refinance loans, backed with the state’s credit, to help meet financial obligations and defer payments.
The Northam administration has refused to tap Virginia’s $1.1 billion “rainy day” fund to help meet the budget crisis in the state education system. As the session began, Northam made clear that the return of funding for education and other social programs was predicated upon getting people back to work. In August, the General Assembly began meetings for a special session intending to pass an amended austerity budget. In addition, tuition at four-year colleges has increased by more than 50 percent since that year. On average, the state of Virginia spends over 8 percent less on its students than it did prior to the 2008 financial recession. Plans for a second-year tuition freeze were scrapped as well as pay increases to teachers.
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According to Pro Publica, the college has over $24.8 million in assets.Īs a state school, NOVA’s funding is being cut by the administration of Democratic governor Ralph Northam as well as the Democratic Party-controlled General Assembly, Virginia’s legislature.Īs the COVID-19 pandemic emerged, Virginia lawmakers agreed to end certain minor funding increases given in March to aid education. NOVA, which is publicly funded, is the largest community college in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the second largest in the US overall. The hook can come as the semester begins, or even a week or two in.” Even in boom times, colleges can scrap an adjunct-taught course if enrollment in that course doesn’t meet expectations. “Described as the ‘gig workers’ of academia, adjuncts receive contracts on a course-by-course basis and make, on average, about $3,000 per class,” the report notes.įor such professors, “ate is tied firmly to student enrollment. According to the Public Broadcasting System, about 70 percent of college professors are nontenured or on track to be tenured. The loss of work and pay is taking place as funding for public college dries up and the state begins to implement austerity measures in the midst of the pandemic economic collapse. “Since they only let us know one to two weeks before school starts we don’t even have a chance to try to find another job or a way to make up for the loss in our paychecks.” The teacher noted that students who sign up to take a class from a preferred professor will find out that they’ve been transferred to another professor without being given a choice in the matter. “I’ve been so angry about this policy for years, but this is the first time it affected me,” the professor said. The stipulation which allows this brazen poaching of students essentially pits full-time faculty members against the more numerous adjunct staff in a race to the bottom. The professor explained that the loss of one class would result in a de facto wage cut of $2,700 for the semester. “Before the semester started told me that they had to take one of my classes and give it to a full-timer who had low enrollment,” stated an adjunct faculty member who chose to remain anonymous. In the past week, members of the Northern Virginia Community College chapter of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) have been contacted by faculty and staff members at NVCC (also referred to as NOVA) describing the loss of work in the state’s community college system.
As budget crises intensify throughout the United States, budget cuts and other forms of the pandemic’s lasting social impact are increasingly being felt by working people and working-class youth.
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