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In Spring of 2022, NTFC members will vote on whether to raise membership dues from 1.35% to 1.5% (limited to the first $100,000 a member makes, as always), and we need to vote yes. Here’s an overview of what this will look like: SalaryMonthly Dues Increase$45,000$5.62$75,000$9.37$100,000$12.50 As you can see, even at the highest end, the increase is small. But even with this small increase, it’s important all our members understand why this vote is happening. The two most pressing questions, I am sure, are these:

1. Why do we need to increase dues?
2. And why increase them now?

The answers ...
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From Jordan Sellers – Instructor, English. As an educator and a parent, I get it. You have no free time. Neither do I. So why am I pausing to write this amid lesson planning for tomorrow, returning student emails, and the myriad of other duties that need my attention? Because I care about you and about the state of higher education. Because I care, I serve as NTFC’s Bargaining Research Chair. Last week, while out visiting new faculty members on campus, a colleague in a different department asked, “Hey aren’t you all paid for your time?” The thought seemed to ...
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From Dorothee Schneider, Teaching Associate Professor-- History, Retired After teaching American history for more than three decades, a lot of what I teach in the classroom refers to events I actually experienced: Watergate, Ronald Reagan’s “It’s Morning in America,” and Bill Clinton’s “I Feel Your Pain.” I watched the towers of the World Trade Center fall with my students while teaching about immigration. But, like students at that moment, I felt that I was a witness, an onlooker of events over which I had no control. I could live through history, I could understand history, but it never occurred to ...
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