AUTHORS: Karen Foster and Louise Birdsell Bauer EXECUTIVE SUMMARY An increasing number of academic staff at universities and colleges in Canada are working in non-standard employment – working part-time, or on temporary and short-term contracts. …
CCPA Report: “Heavy reliance on contract faculty in Canadian universities is a structural issue, not a temporary approach to hiring”
Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives Contract U Contract faculty appointments at Canadian universities AUTHOR(S): Erika Shaker Chandra Pasma There is a growing body of literature documenting the rise of precarious work in Canada, including among …
A note of thanks to my union
Congratulations to Georgia Sitara, a Continuing Sessional Lecturer in the Departments of Gender Studies and History, for winning the 2017 Humanities Award for Teaching Excellence. Georgia is the first sessional to win this! Please read her kind letter …
Economic Stability Dividend 2016 = .45%
During Component 3 negotiations, we were not hopeful Economic Stability Dividend would amount to anything. It has produced almost a half of percent increase for Sessional Lecturers and Music Performance Instructors in 2016. It remains …
Enough’s Enough – article on Sessional Lecturers
“Today, 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 because to do so would be to give …