Finding our voice Researchers have had immense difficulty extracting the exact number of contract faculty working inside Canadian universities. Various studies- often using the freedom of information act- have shown that their ranks have swelled inside […]
Yearly Archives: 2019
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What is a ‘part-time professor?’ At the University of Ottawa this title applies to those professors bound by the APTPUO agreement. Given the title ‘part-time,’ one would be forgiven for thinking that a part-time professor works […]
What is effective teaching? A recent article in University Affairs put a spotlight on student course evaluations and raised a series of troubling questions. Manifold studies have established that student course evaluations are little more than […]
This theme is in relation to the (in)visible conference. What is research? A pillar of contemporary universities is splitting their faculty into separate classes: tenured professors, adjuncts, visiting, replacement and part-time etc. This fracturing of the […]
This theme is in relation to the (in)visible conference. In Queen’s Park, austerity measures have blown a hole in university budgets, cut student financial aid and eliminated bargaining rights for contract faculty. There is little doubt […]
This theme is in relation to the (in)visible conference. Multiple surveys have established that contract faculty suffer from low wages, high stress and poor working conditions. A Conference Board of Canada survey revealed that within a […]