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In UK, More Than Half of Academics Employed on Precarious Contracts
by Jack Grove More than half of academics are employed on precarious contracts, claims a report by the University and College Union on the “hire-and-fire culture of insecure working” within higher education. Some 54 per cent of all academic…
PTers at Algoma University in Ontario Prepared to Strike for Higher Pay
“We’re not looking for the mean salary or the median salary, we are looking to be tied with the bottom, and management (at Algoma) offered us zero for the next three years…we don’t think our request is at all unreasonable,” Robinson said…
Colleagues Abroad: Part-time Lecturers in the UK Speak Out—”I don’t make enough for…
Steve Hanson, 44, part-time lecturer in political sociology I have a doctorate from a great university; I’ve worked on government research projects, and have more published work than many tenured staff. I have been hourly-paid for about…
Stories From the Adjunct Professorate: Bittersweet and, Yes, Bitter
As I speak to contingent faculty from New York to Texas, Seattle to San Francisco, it becomes increasingly clear that academic penury has become the order of the day. This is occurring at a time when higher education – and some salaries…
Interview: Sherry Turkle on Technology in the College Classroom
by Jeffrey Young Sherry Turkle Says There’s a Wrong Way to Flip a Classroom. Sherry Turkle has gone from gracing the cover of Wired magazine for her boosterish views of technology, to a leading tech skeptic, worried about how our…
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…
Why All Universities in Kenya Are Phasing Out PT Lecturers
By Ouma Wanzala The Kenyan Commission for University Education has announced that part-time lecturers will be phased out. The commission is determined to phase out part-time lecturers, saying most of them are giving substandard services to…
A Record 67 Adjuncts Win Guggenheim Fellowships
by P.D. Lesko On April 6, 2016, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation announced that, “in its ninety-second competition for the United States and Canada, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded 175 Fellowships…
An Interview With the Academic Twitter Star: “Sh*t Academics Say”
By Shawna Wagman Since Nathan Hall introduced the world to Shit Academics Say in 2013, his humorous Twitter account has become one of the most popular related to academia, with nearly 140,000 followers. Dr. Hall, an associate professor in…
Lecturer Uses Facebook to Expose The Poor Working Conditions of Part-Time Instructors In South…
by Jean Marie Abellana About 70,000 lecturers from several universities in South Korea are working part-time. These teachers renew their job contracts every semester. While the majority of them desire to be given a full-time status, most…