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Steve M. Street, a well-known supporter of adjunct faculty rights and a leader of several organizations working on behalf of adjuncts, died Friday of cancer. He was 56. Street taught writing and literature as an adjunct at several colleges since 1980. Street was part of the New Faculty Majority, the Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor, and the United University Professions, the faculty union at the State University of New York. Street also wrote about the precarious situation for adjuncts in several publications, including Inside Higher Ed.
“Steve was a clear and forceful thinker and writer, someone who was never afraid to speak truth to power,” said Maria Maisto, president of the New Faculty Majority, in a message she posted on an e-mail list for adjuncts. “He gave more than he took, and we miss him deeply,” said Mark Street, Steve M. Street’s brother, and an assistant professor of visual arts at Fordham University, in an e-mail.
