by Paul Collins After years of dividing my time between freelance writing and teaching online courses, I shifted entirely to writing books and articles. But to the…
part-time faculty
by Molly McCluskey For some, they’re a blessing: a chance to focus less on course development and more on the actual teaching. For some, they’re a curse:…
by Elizabeth J. Carter The unveiling this past November of the first-ever collective-bargaining agreement between 2,000 part-time faculty and administration at the New School was met with…
Four of every five part-time workers in the U.S. lack employer-sponsored health insurance, a study released today reports. By comparison, about one of every four full-time employees…
Peeved at the state government`s continued negligence of their demands, part-time government college lecturers who are currently on a strike, have threatened to intensify their agitation, apart…
Full-time lecturers at Eastern Michigan University are under contract for the next five years in an agreement approved in early-December by the Board of Regents. The new…
After many months of working with the University of Michigan and waiting for answers, the Lecturers’ Employee Organization is reaching its breaking point. In a membership meeting…
by Brian Cole Academic publishing. One might think the entire system has broken down. The Internet is filled with articles and Weblogs (blogs) that bemoan the fact…
by Christopher Cumo In Canada, the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) represents full-time faculty, and roughly equal numbers of sessionals (part-time fac-ulty) and graduate students, estimates…
Waiting for the Green I teach at a community college in Iowa. At the end of the Winter Term last year, someone got the idea that we…
