Category: English Matters

Professional Issues

Representing the New Faculty Majority

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 […]

Anna Maria Tremonti and Contract Academic Faculty

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 […]

CAUT’s “Fair Employment Week”

“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 […]