BS
Most sessional lecturers never were eligible for health insurance and other benefits. Universities have been screwing over their part-time instructors for years.
THis is a bs article.
The big money in universities is in administration. Not in full-time faculty nor in part-time faculty. Fulltime do get benefits. PTs never did. In between are fulltime non-tenure-track who do get benefits but are on renewable term contracts.
But isn’t this about adjunct’s that teach 30-hrs or more a week?
Hitting that 30-hr limit means colleges have to provide benefits (medical coverage) they previously didn’t have to. . .correct? I know of several adjunct’s that teach 30-hrs or more a week. . .some at the same college and others teach at various state colleges and put in 30-hrs or more a week.
I am adjunct faculty at a small college, teach one national government class per term. Never paid any attention to the other adjuncts because of two main reasons, 1) I didn’t have to, as I am retired and now try to educate students to teach them to THINK, to keep them from becoming unthinking government drones and, 2) all the other adjuncts are as liberal as they come and I never wanted to listen/associate with them anyway.
(As a side note, one of the faculty was ranting in the lounge about a lottery winner that won hundreds of millions of dollars and how she wanted the government to come in and take that money. You see, the government should decide, like obozo said, that at some point you made enough money, and in the case of the lottery winner, he won too much.)