There is a big elephant in the room of postsecondary education, that negatively affects students, community, tenured faculty, and contract faculty. This is chronic underfunding.
- For contract faculty, it means hanging by a thread.
- For full time faculty, it means hitting a wall with workloads.
- For students, it means getting hosed by increased tuition costs.
- For communities, it means putting their stability at risk.
Chronic underfunding is the root cause of precarity on campus and astronomically high tuition fees. This underfunding is the reason 50 per cent of undergraduate courses are taught by precariously employed faculty who lack job security, equal pay and fair working conditions. This big elephant is the reason domestic undergraduate tuition fees in Ontario are 50% higher than the rest of the country and international undergraduate tuition fees are 64% higher than the rest of the country.
We need to address the big elephant in the room. Contract Faculty deserve job security, equal pay and fair working conditions. Adequate, stable and long-term funding of postsecondary education is needed to end precarity on campus. Chronic underfunding has led to overwhelming workloads for full-time tenured faculty at Ontario’s universities. Ontario’s universities need more tenure-stream faculty.
It has led to crises like the one facing Laurentian University.
Today WLUFA joins OCUFA and Faculty Associations across the province in a Social Media Day of Action to end precarious employment in postsecondary education.
Use the sample tweets and graphics linked below, and feel free to share WLUFA’s tweets, Facebook post, or your own posts on these issues.
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Sample tweets for the Social Media Day of Action
Let’s talk about the big elephant in the room: the chronic underfunding of postsecondary education.
It negatively impacts contract faculty, students, faculty, and the community as a whole.
#OnPSE #OnPoli #Fairness4CF
Underfunding of postsecondary education: For full-time faculty, it means hitting a wall with workloads.
#OnPSE #OnPoli #Fairness4CF
Underfunding of postsecondary education: For students, it means getting hosed by increased tuition costs.
#OnPSE #OnPoli #Fairness4CF
Underfunding of postsecondary education: For contract faculty, it means hanging by a thread.
#OnPSE #OnPoli #Fairness4CF
Underfunding of postsecondary education: For communities, it means putting their stability at risk.
#OnPSE #OnPoli #Fairness4CF
We need to address the big elephant in the room: the chronic underfunding of postsecondary education.
It is the root cause of precarity on campus and astronomically high tuition fees.
#OnPSE #OnPoli #Fairness4CF
The big elephant in the room, the chronic underfunding of postsecondary education is the reason 50 per cent of undergraduate courses are taught by precariously employed faculty who lack job security, equal pay and fair working conditions.
#OnPSE #OnPoli #Fairness4CF
Because of the big elephant in the room, the chronic underfunding of postsecondary education, domestic undergraduate tuition fees in Ontario are 50% higher than the rest of the country.
#OnPSE #OnPoli #Fairness4CF
Because of the big elephant in the room, the chronic underfunding of postsecondary education, international undergraduate tuition fees are 64% higher than the rest of the country
#OnPSE #OnPoli #Fairness4CF
We need to address the big elephant in the room.
Contract Faculty deserve job security, equal pay and fair working conditions. Adequate, stable and long-term funding of postsecondary education is needed to end precarity on campus.
#OnPSE #OnPoli #Fairness4CF
The big elephant in the room, the chronic underfunding of postsecondary education, has led to overwhelming workloads for full-time tenured faculty at Ontario’s universities.
Ontario’s universities need more tenure-stream faculty.
#OnPSE #OnPoli #Fairness4CF
We need to address the big elephant in the room: the chronic underfunding of postsecondary education
It has led to crises like the one facing @LaurentianU
Strong, stable funding of postsecondary education is needed for strong communities
#OnPSE #OnPoli #Fairness4CF #FundLU
Due to the big elephant in the room, the chronic underfunding of postsecondary education, Ontario has the highest student-to-faculty ratio in the country, 32 students for every faculty member.
The average for the rest of Canada? 22 students for every faculty member.
#OnPSE #OnPoli #Fairness4CF