Topic: Contract faculty
We Teach Ontario launches student video contest
We Teach Ontario, OCUFA’s campaign highlighting the important connection between teaching and research, has launched a student video contest. The contest offers […]
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Contract faculty, Corporatization and commercialization, Governance, Hiring, promotion, and tenure, Universities and the academic mission
The Last Professors: A eulogy to “the Last Good Job in America”
Frank Donoghue: The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities (Fordham University Press, 2008)
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The Academic P3 and the University as Virtual Enterprise
In business, writes McMaster University’s Marc Ouellette, the virtual enterprise reduces competition while increasing standardization, an outcome antithetical to academic excellence. But the model is upon us, and that has implications for faculty.
READ MOREEquity, ethics, academic freedom and the employment of contingent academics
The recent York University strike by contingent faculty has provided a focal point for discussion in my evening graduate course, “Faculty in […]
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Contract faculty, Equity and social justice, Governance, Performance assessment, Truth and Reconciliation and decolonization
“Whose university is it, anyway?” A question we need to keep asking
Whose University Is It, Anyway? Power and Privilege on Gendered Terrain, edited by Anne Wagner, Sandra Acker, and Kimine Mayuzumi (Sumach Press, 2008)
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Contract faculty, Governance, Public engagement, Research and innovation, Teaching and learning, Universities and the academic mission
Getting it “just right”: What’s the right combination of values for universities as they adapt to changing social, economic, and political circumstances?
Debora Rhode. In Pursuit of Knowledge: Scholars, Status and Academic Culture. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. Mary Burgan. Whatever Happened to the Faculty: Drift and Decision in Higher Education. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
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Extreme Work-Study
In this excerpt adapted from his recent book, How The University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation (NYU Press, 2008), Marc Bousquet explores the relationship of mass higher education in the United States to a global shift toward precarious employment.
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