Abstract
ABSTRACT 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 force. In a study of part-time faculty at a large Canadian university, we explore some of the consequences of part-time status for the individuals themselves and for the university in which they do a high proportion of the teaching. The research was conducted via questionnaire survey of part-time faculty members and of students, and in-depth interviews with part-time faculty, full-time faculty, administrators, union leaders and students. Part-time contracts provide curricular flexibility and accommodation to fiscal restraint; they also meet the needs of some individuals. The costs of academic marginality are most severe for ‘reluctant˚s part-timers who would prefer full-time positions. In constituting a secondary labour market, a large echelon of part-time faculty compromises the ideal of the collegium, and is perceive...
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