National Adjunct posted the following open letter to media on the National Adjunct Walkout Day (NAWD) FaceBook page, February 19, 2015. The letter also doubles as ideas for talking points. The NAWD Tumblr page is abuzz with submissions from precarious faculty in- and outside the United States, as denoted on the map of events below.
Map by @vireeon. Send logos to @vireeon to map your event.
Dear Media,
Thank you for your requests.
It’s good that you are focusing attention on the “plight” of adjuncts, and we thank you for getting “our” story out there.
But the story of adjunctification is larger than the story of adjuncts.
It’s the story of higher education, and how it is losing its mission.
In addition to questioning adjuncts, are you also putting administrators in the hot seat? Are you asking why a system that claims to value education is exploiting 75% of its faculty?
Are you asking why, as tuition has risen at unprecedented rates, instruction allocations have gone down?
Are you asking where student fees are going? How much administrators are earning? How much money is being spent on building projects, athletics, and aesthetic upgrades?
Adjuncts are part of the story–but the whole story can’t be told by adjuncts alone.
Please also direct your questions to students, whose learning conditions suffer at the same time their tuition has risen; and full time faculty, who share many of our same concerns.
And please don’t forget to direct the hard-hitting questions to the administrators who are paid generous salaries to answer your questions–and then ask them some more
If you have already looked at these angles, it should already be clear why adjuncts are coming together on February 25.
Thanks,
#NAWD
Visit the National Adjunct Walkout Day Facebook page for updates, news and camaraderie here; and the Tumblr page for #NAWD ideas and to submit your event with or without logos here. For Twitter, visit @NationalAdjunct here.
adjunkedprofessor 
I’m going to publish this on Lehigh Valley Vanguard, if that is alright with you. Great open letter!
Reblogged this on National Mobilization For Equity and commented:
because it bears repeating…often
NAWD, NADA, or NAAD who whatever you want to call it cannot die….henceforth, every fourth Wednesday in February should be declared National Adjunct Day of Action, or well…whatever.
We need to institutionalize this date while it is fresh in mind….And by the way, we need to do this now, before the various organizations at large get together and tussle with the date, and lose the whole point in their turbidity.
Geoff Johnson