This issue marks the third time the Adjunct Advocate has devoted an entire issue` to the theme of “colleagues abroad.” Our first “colleagues abroad” issue was published in May/June 2002. Two years later, in our November/December 2004 issue, we again examined the use of part-time faculty at colleges and universities outside of the United States. So why focus on part-timers who don’t teach in the U.S.? For starters, it’s easy to get entrenched in one’s job–particularly if that work is done without regular contact with colleagues–and believe that there’s no one else out there who’s in the same ivory tower. These theme issues not only demonstrate that part-time faculty in the United States are not alone, but that a part-timer could travel to just about any university in the world and find a fellow part-timer with whom to share lunch and have a chat about teaching.

In our May/June 2002 issue, we published an interview with David Petrie, Chair of the Association of Foreign Language Lecturers in Italy (ALLSI). In that piece, readers learned about the legal battle being waged between Italy’s 1,500 foreign-born language lecturers and the Italian state. In this issue, Henry Rodgers writes about the culmination of the 19-year legal battle.

In Japan, one-third of part-time college lecturers earn less than $18,000 per year, and fully half of college lecturers in that country have seen their contracts terminated. Both of our previous “colleagues abroad” issues have had pieces about Japan’s part-time faculty. In this issue, we asked writer Alice Gordenker to investigate the formation of part-time faculty unions in Japan.

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