January was a little scary...ok...a lot scary. We watched, more than slightly terrified, as sales dropped and dropped and, well, you get the picture. February, normally a…
casual faculty
![To Protect the Jobs of Australian Casuals, Union Calls for Across the Board Staff Pay Cuts img](https://www.adjunctnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Oz-472x295.jpg)
by Jess Harris, Kathleen Smithers and Nerida Spina The National Tertiary Education Union this week struck an agreement with universities that no ongoing university staff member would be stood…
![Colleagues Abroad: Part-time Lecturers in the UK Speak Out—”I don’t make enough for rent” img](https://www.adjunctnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Steve-Hanson-e1585602123726-472x295.jpg)
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…
![Adjuncts Who Teach For The Love of It ARE the Problem img](https://www.adjunctnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Oz-472x295.jpg)
The following was posted to CASA, a "home online for casual, adjunct, sessional staff and their allies in Australian Higher Education." In case you thought higher ed.…
![A Perspective From Down Under—Adjuncts as Sandwich-Makers img](https://www.adjunctnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/sandwich-472x295.jpg)
by Nicki Smith The phrase ‘Make me a sandwich’, which distills the age-old sexist stereotype that women belong in the kitchen, is something that I have…
![British University Rejects Criticism for Using Academic Title of "Hourly Paid Lecturers" for Some Temp. Faculty img](https://www.adjunctnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Lincoln-472x295.jpg)
by Jack Grove With so many variations of lecturer, fellow, reader and professor – such as senior, associate, visiting and principal – academic job titles are sometimes seen as…
![Is “Casualisation” of Faculty “Damaging” Post-Secondary Ed in Ireland? img](https://www.adjunctnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/irish-flag-472x295.jpg)
by John MacGanhann Among the most damaging effects of the cutbacks in education is the casualisation of teaching and lecturing. Ironically, this is exacerbated by the abuse of…
![Aussie Universities Employ "Casuals" To Teach More Than Half of Total College Courses Offered img](https://www.adjunctnation.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/australian-flag-472x295.jpg)
by Geoff Maslen The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) will use a forthcoming higher education enterprise bargaining round to call for the creation of 2,000 new ongoing jobs…