Colleagues Abroad

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Gender Inequality in Precarious Academic Work: Female Adjunct Professors in Italy

Gianluca De Angelis and Barbara Grüning International research studies and national reports point out two specific aspects which characterize women’s academic careers. First, few women advance to senior academic roles. Second, although female academics progress in numbers equivalent to their male colleagues up to a...

A False Economy? Canada Counts Costs of Downsizing Decade

by Sarah Cunnanae Universities across the world are feeling the effects of the new age of austerity as governments respond to their financial circumstances by cutting back. But the.

OPSEU is Smokin' in Ontario

Untitled Documentby P.D. Lesko Just like the lyric from the “West Side Story” song, it’s “alarming how charming” Smokey Thomas is. He has a strong Canadian accent, speaks rapidly and.

In South Korea, "Non-Regular" Employment is Killing Part-Timers

“After I tried to overcome various obstacles for four years, I finally found a place to rest here in Austin. …The reason why I am writing this is to prevent a similar tragedy in the future. …Social irregularities cannot only be solved by plausible slogans....

Israel's Junior Lecturers Postpone Strike

The Knesset Education Committee’s attempt to stave off a threatened strike by junior teaching faculty seemed to meet with success. Following the urgent meeting, held less than a week before.

28 Years & Counting: Foreign-Language Lecturers Versus Italy

by Henry Rodgers When I emigrated from Ireland to Italy in 1988 I had no inkling that I would become involved in a marathon campaign to end discrimination against foreign.

Anatomy of Sessional Attrition in Canada

by S. McGinnis After 14 years of teaching, University of Calgary lecturer Allison Dube abandoned his academic career because he said he couldn’t survive on his wages any longer. We wrote about Dube in the March/April 2007 issue of Adjunct Advocate. He is one of...

OPSEU is Smokin’ in Ontario

Untitled Documentby P.D. Lesko Just like the lyric from the “West Side Story” song, it’s “alarming how charming” Smokey Thomas is. He has a strong Canadian accent, speaks rapidly and.

In South Korea, “Non-Regular” Employment is Killing Part-Timers

“After I tried to overcome various obstacles for four years, I finally found a place to rest here in Austin. …The reason why I am writing this is to prevent.

The Foreign Lecturer in Japan: A Temporary Who Cannot Say No

by Anthony S. Rausch Foreign lecturer at a national university in Japan . . . sounds promising. But like so many things Japanese, appearances can deceive and you never know how things will turn out. People wind up staying in Japan long-term for a lot...

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