Background Internationalisation of higher education involving information and
communication technology such as e-learning opens opportunities for innovative learning …

An increasingly large number of courses in Canadian postsecondary institutions are taught
by contingent instructors who hold full-or part-time positions for contractually limited time …

In neoliberal times the nature of academic employment in universities has shifted
dramatically. Precarious (fixed-term and casual) academic employment has proliferated …

This paper argues that the challenges to professional identity implicit in contingent
employment are significantly complicated by the substance and structure of composition …

Since the adoption and subsequent fade of the Wyoming Resolution, we have seen the
political economy of writing instruction change remarkably. Certainly, composition studies' …

What would it mean to “stay with emotion”? This question occurred to me while reading I
Hope I Join the Band, Frankie Condon's tireless exploration of whiteness and its many steep …

Academic faculty hiring has experienced a major shift over the last forty years. While tenure-
track positions were once the norm, nontenure track, sometimes referred to as contingent …

Academic freedom is a keystone of professionalism in higher education, perhaps most
immediately in curricular design: the autonomy to create and choose materials for our …

As a member of the scholarly community of writing program administrators, I have been well
versed in the institutional and material contexts of composition and firstyear writing. In the …

I remember reading my termination letter (Figure 1) and being overwhelmed by a sense of
urgency and desperation. Urgent because I was unemployed and needed to work and make …