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Contract faculty, Corporatization and commercialization, Equity and social justice, Funding, Governance, Universities and the academic mission

The corporatization of the university budget and its consequences for academic support workers

Janice Folk-Dawson

As governments and administrators increasingly run universities like private corporations, academic support workers find their working conditions deteriorating and their jobs threatened. […]

Contract faculty, Equity and social justice, Health and safety

Zero-hour contracts take a huge mental and physical toll – poor eating habits, lack of sleep and relationship problems

Ernestine Gheyoh Ndzi, University of Hertfordshire and Janet Barlow, University of Hertfordshire

The number of workers on zero-hours contracts continues to rise in the UK. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates that between […]

Contract faculty, Equity and social justice

Precarious employment in education impacts workers, families and students

Michael Mindzak, Brock University

Beneath the typical full-time, permanent model of classroom teaching lies an enormous workforce of educators who function on the margins as precarious […]

Contract faculty, Hiring, promotion, and tenure, International issues

Casual academics aren’t going anywhere, so what can universities do to ensure learning isn’t affected?

Dorothy Wardale, Curtin University; Julia Richardson, Curtin University, and Yuliani Suseno, Edith Cowan University

Casual academics provide flexibility for universities at a time when student numbers are uncertain. from shutterstock.com More Australian universities are relying on […]

Contract faculty, Equity and social justice

How we can turn the tide for women in science

Rowan Thomson, Carleton University

For the first time in 55 years, a woman has won the Nobel Prize in physics — Prof. Donna Strickland. This win has publicly highlighted that women are still under-represented in science, particularly in physics. As a woman in physics, this lack of diversity is something that I encounter almost daily, and also something that we can take action to change.

Contract faculty, Funding, Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Politics

It’s time to invest in a faculty renewal strategy for Ontario’s universities

Gyllian Phillips

For years, full-time faculty hiring has stagnated at Ontario’s universities, even as student enrolment has increased dramatically. It’s time for the government […]

Congress 2017: Challenges to the integrity of academic hiring practices

Cheryl Athersych

During Congress 2017, a session on the Challenges to the Integrity of Academic Hiring Practices in the Corporate University encouraged participants to […]