Dive Brief:

• Adjunct faculty members at Tufts University have voted to join a union.
• One adjunct teaching there since 1995 says she hopes the union would push for longer-term contracts.
• The victory for the Service Employees International Union is the first in a campaign to organize adjuncts across the Boston area.

Dive Insight:

The union's Boston campaign mirrors one in Washington, D.C., where it now represents some instructors at Georgetown, George Washington, and American universities, and Montgomery College. Early next month, adjunct faculty members at Bentley University in suburban Boston will vote on whether to organize.