"This is an issue that affects the quality of education that our students receive. We, the contract instructors, do not have permanent employment or guaranteed contracts: Every semester we must re-apply for our jobs, even if we’ve been teaching the same course for a decade or more. Very few institutional resources are extended to us: Many of us do not have offices, access to computers or phones on campus, and, thus, cannot easily meet or co-ordinate with our students. Our working conditions are our students’ learning conditions and, to be frank, our working conditions are horrible. In some departments at Carleton University, more than 50 per cent of the undergraduate courses are taught by contract instructors and it is possible for students to graduate without ever taking a course with a tenure-track or tenured professor. When parents send their children to university, they do not expect their children to be taught by people living paycheque to paycheque."
Posted on: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 19:25:05 +0000
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