Professional Issues
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 […]
To the SSHRC Consultation committee, I am writing on behalf of the Research Development Committee of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Dalhousie University to express our concerns about the proposed open-access policy or, perhaps more accurately, the digital-access policy on SSHRC-funded research. SSH research has […]
In the expanded version of a paper given at the 2012 ACCUTE conference, in a panel organized by the Committee for Professional Concerns, Julia Wright (Dalhousie) considers the “problem of governance” in the contemporary research university. She writes: “Universities need an idea of academic citizenship that will … […]
“Contract academic staff are under attack,” reads the opening banner to the Canadian Association of University Teachers’ (CAUT) website posting for Fair Employment Week, October 21-25. ACCUTE agrees. We are working now on statistics, but some recent postings have indicated that about one-half of the teaching undergraduate students […]
