by P.D. Lesko The Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor (COCAL) sprang forth from the National Congress of Adjunct, Part-time, Graduate Teaching Assistants and Non-Tenure Track Faculty. The…
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Two hundred part-time teachers and support staff at Durham College are being included in one of the largest union membership drives in Ontario history. The Ontario Public…
With only three weeks to go in the winter session, part-time faculty at Concordia University, in Quebec, Canada, are threatening to cancel classes and walk off the…
Israeli university students started their first semester in mid-January — after a senior lecturers’ strike of nearly 90 days — amidst new threats that the school year…
The Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty Association (WLUFA) executives made the decision for contract academic staff (CAS) to go on strike. The major issues still unresolved were a…
by Paul Trout “‘Why are colleges trying to force this stuff down our throats and trying to make us think when our minds and opinions are already…
Interviewed by P.D. Lesko Please tell us a little about yourself professionally. Well, I’m an economist who has had the fortune of working in an interdisciplinary studies…
by Jo Gibson Adjunct faculty are nothing if not pro-active about creating job- and career-enhancing opportunities for themselves. They have to be. As they build their teaching…
[private] On the AdjunctNation.com Web site, we surveyed faculty visitors and asked them to tell us whether they permitted students to eat during lectures. The survey results…
The negotiating teams of the Acadia University Faculty Association (AUFA) and Board of Governors met Wednesday evening at the Board’s request; however, the discussion was short lived.…