More than one-third of all Canadian faculty are part-timers who contribute significantly to
academic work while consuming only marginally universities' economic resources. Mythical …

Over the past two decades, increasing government cuts have forced universities to become
dependent on full-and part-time contract faculty. This fixed dependence has reinforced the …

The entrenchment of part-time academic positions reflects a more general trend in industrial
societies where part-time workers have become the fastest growing segment of the labour …

The financial crisis in the Canadian higher education system has led to marked growth in the
use of part-time faculty, whose interests and powers are strongly differentiated from those of …

Our Canadian national survey 1991–92 reveals significantly different profiles of two types of
part-time academics: those who have full-time non-academic jobs (Classics 34.5%) and …

Universities across Canada are increasingly using contingent, or temporary instructors to
teach undergraduate courses (Rajagopal 2002, Muzzin 2008, Lin 2006). Scholars have …

Much has been written about the coming decline in the demand for faculty in academe. In
some fields, such as history, linguistics, and the foreign languages, evidence reveals that the …

Part-time teaching faculty in colleges and universities face many problems unknown to (or
ignored by) their full-time counterparts. The low status accorded part-time teachers leads to …

Public universities have assumed business-minded practices and norms that more closely
align with goals and values of corporations than social institutions charged with creating and …

Faculty labour in the United States is increasingly “contingent”, as tenure-track and tenured
positions are rapidly being replaced by “adjuncts”,“lecturers”,“instructors” and other faculty …