Part-time and adjunct professors at the University of Southern California have submitted a request to hold union elections in early 2016, following similar union organizing movements at other California colleges and universities as well as nationwide. Even though tuition has risen to $49,000, some university benefits have been cut recently, and faculty in support of unionizing hope to see higher pay and better job stability. University provost Michael Quick feels that part-time and adjunct faculty at USC are doing better than many other California campuses that are unionized, and cautions that introducing an “industrial model of labor relations” would be “adversarial” to collegial processes.
See "USC faculty moves ahead with union election plan, despite warning of increased hostility", Jason Song, November 25, 2015