Professional Issues
By Ann Martin, ACCUTE campus representative, University of Saskatchewan The day after Robert Buckingham, the now former Executive Director of the School of Public Health at the University of Saskatchewan, was stripped of his title and tenure, and escorted off the campus by security, my cousin—Managing Director of the Canadian […]
The following is an edited version of my opening comments, given as ACCUTE President, to a panel on the “Humanities: Past, Present, Future,” at Ryerson University on March 6th, 2014. The panel was sponsored by the Ryerson Department of English and organized by its interim chair Nima Naghibi, with […]
Over the past months, a task force of committed ACCUTE members has been working on a checklist of “best practices” designed specifically to further greater awareness of, and respect for, the work of contract faculty members within Canadian Departments of English. Everyone involved in the composition of this […]
We still don’t have competent statistics about contract academic faculty numbers within the Canadian postsecondary industry, a fact that speaks volumes in support of the hypothesis that ignorance is motivated. We do know that the numbers are growing. One report, on staffing at the University of Ottawa in […]
In a few days, we’ll be posting the Winter 2014 ACCUTE Newsletter, featuring ACCUTE sessional rep Dorothy Hadfield’s column on contract academic labour, and my own column on ACCUTE’s current attempt to develop and promulgate a “best practices” checklist for contract academic faculty in Canadian Departments of English. Please […]
