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Sessional Faculty at York U in Toronto Hit the Picket Lines Over Job Security

The university and the bargaining team for CUPE 3903 say their positions on a number of issues are too far apart to reach an agreement at this time. This article is only available to subscribers. If you're a subscriber, log in. To subscribe, choose the...

Ontario PT/FT Faculty Reach Agreement—Pay Hiked and Academic Freedom Guarantees

by Sarah Armoogam On December 20, one month after the Ontario government ended last fall’s college faculty strike with back-to-work legislation, the two sides have completed a binding arbitration agreement mandated.

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.

Colleagues Abroad: Part-time Lecturers in the UK Speak Out—”I don’t make enough for rent”

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 five years now, but HR departments have been...

Contract Instructing in Ontario—A Personal Perspective

by Andrew Robinson I am a relative newcomer to contract instructing, having moved to Ontario from Saskatchewan in 2010, for family reasons related to health care for my younger son, who.

I Teach University Physics, But I’m on Government Assistance

by Andrew Robinson Recently, I had a perfectly reasonable request from a student who wanted to review an exam from last term. I was unable to comply with this request.

AdjunctNation Adjunct Salary Survey

This is our Salary Survey. Please feel free to share it using the social media buttons above. This survey seeks to collect, compile, analyze and publish compensation data for non-tenured teaching faculty at individual U.S. colleges and universities. AdjunctNation.com is conducting a series of surveys...

Adjuncts Who Teach For The Love of It ARE the Problem

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. in Oz might.

A Perspective From Down Under—Adjuncts as Sandwich-Makers

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 found myself increasingly.

British University Rejects Criticism for Using Academic Title of "Hourly Paid Lecturers" for Some Temp. Faculty

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 confusing for British students. But a rather blunt job description of “hourly paid lecturer” used by the University...

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