At OSU, 18 FT English Lecturers to Foot the Bill for a Dean’s Budget Shortfalls

Update: Shortly after this story was published, OSU officials announced that lecturers’ contracts would be honored through the end of the 2017 academic year. Here is a link to a story about the announcement. On Oct. 25, an OSU spokesman provided a comment in which the college “regretted any confusion” about the possibility of mid-year firings of full-time English Dept. lecturers. by P.D. Lesko The Tweet @AdjunctNation came bright and early at 9 a.m. on Monday October 24, 2016: Those who responded to the Tweet wondered why Ohio State University’s English Dept. was planning to dismiss 18 of its 28 lecturers. Others on […]