We’ve joined the Canadian Association of University Teachers’ (CAUT) Make It Fair for Contract Academic Staff campaign!
Visit our campaign launch on October 30, 2024 where we’ll be tabling with free coffee and donuts near the main Carleton bus stop between Minto and Nicol Building from 10 am to 1 pm!
The campaign highlights the inequities faced by contract academic staff at Universities across the country. CIs face increasing precarity, ballooning workloads and class sizes, and poor pay and benefits. On top of being poorly paid and devalued by Carleton, and despite being highly educated and often experts in their fields, CIs must reapply for their jobs once or multiple times per year. Nearly half of all educators at Carleton are low-waged Contract Instructors. The precarious nature of contract work and juggling of multiple jobs makes it more difficult for CIs wanting to join the tenure track to engage with their academic communities and meet the scholarly production thresholds required to gain entry to tenure track positions. Carleton profits from precarity.
Keep an eye out on campus for our posters around campus!
