While many of us may be tired from working at the various Contract Faculty information tables over the last month, we have been fortified! We have spoken with students, staff and faculty on both campuses that support Contract Faculty in their fight for fair compensation, access to benefits and job security. Here are just a […]
Month: October 2016
Read “Life in academic poverty as an underpaid university teacher: ‘They just don’t want to pay'”
Read the September 2016 article about contract or adjunct faculty in American higher education: As an adjunct, Wangerin is employed on a casual basis and earns somewhere between half and one-third of what a tenure-track professor would make for teaching the same courses. That is significant, because non-tenure track teaching staff – commonly referred to […]
Contract Faculty at Laurier? – Two PP slides that can help!
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The perils of using supply and demand to justify contingent academic labour
“The argument [in academia] is that the supply of ‘good’ jobs is not sufficient, therefore, contingent faculty either must be satisfied with their usually meager pay, or do the only thing in their power … quit,” writes John Warner for Inside Higher Ed. One of the biggest problems with this argument, Warner notes, is that […]
WLUFA Advocate 5.1
WLUFA-Advocate-Oct-2016 Please note: The name of the individual in the CUPE 926’s Super 16 article has been removed at the request of the individual.
Read the “New report on sessional faculty in Ontario universities”
Released in July 2016, “A Survey of Sessional Faculty in Ontario Publicly-Funded Universities” by Field and Jones “…takes a step towards addressing the lack of evidence to guide debate on the quickly growing population of university instructors who work on short-term contracts.” Go to the August CIHE blog entry summarizing and linking to the report: https://ciheblog.wordpress.com/2016/08/15/new-report-on-sessional-faculty-in-ontario-universities/ […]
“Challenging Precarious Academic Work”
Presentation slides and complete audio recordings of every session from OCUFA’s “Challenging precarious academic work” conference are now available online. People who missed out on the conference the first time around can access and download the complete conference proceedings. http://ocufa.on.ca/conferences/confronting-precarious-academic-work/
The CBC’s Sunday Edition: Academia’s dirty little secret
Canadian universities are being quietly kept afloat by low-paid, contract teachers with no job security or benefits. Ira Basen‘s documentary is called “Class Struggle.” http://www.cbc.ca/radio/popup/audio/listen.html?autoPlay=true&clipIds=2508334466&mediaIds=2508334461&contentarea=radio&subsection1=radio1&subsection2=currentaffairs&subsection3=the_sunday_edition&contenttype=audio&title=2015/09/06/1.3215479-levine-flexhaug;-coalition-governments;-low-paid-contract-teachers-at-canadian-universities;-oliver-sacks&contentid=1.3215479
Buttons in support of CF are in!
Faculty are the heart of Laurier – all faculty. Wear Your Support for Contract Faculty! Send us an email with your name and department at wlufa@wlu.ca to have a button sent to you right away. Interested in distributing them to colleagues and/or students? Let us know how many you need (and thank you)! Buttons will […]