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Unexpected departmental news

posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 07:03pm on 06/06/2003
Our professor of physics has just resigned, lured away by another university. This means that at least 4 of our undergraduate courses will be taught by graduate students or sessionals next year. What an unexpected development.
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Duh...

posted by [identity profile] saffronjan.livejournal.com at 09:06am on 07/06/2003
... what's a sessional? I suppose I should know, but, well, the subject line says it all.
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Re: Duh...

posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 12:38pm on 07/06/2003
A sessional is a contract instructor. Sessional teaching isn't a formal, longterm position with the university - they're instructorships contracted out by the year, the course, or the semester. As a full-time job, sessionals are infamously poorly paid and deprived of benefits for the amount of work they do. On the other hand, it's a flexible position - so some people actually do like it. But my impression is the majority would rather win themselves a tenure-track position.

There's a lot of ink spilled over so many PhDs ending up stuck in poorly paid sessionaldom in many of the things I'm reading these days.
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posted by [identity profile] snowdrifted.livejournal.com at 11:27am on 07/06/2003
I found that out a few days ago from the Grad Coordinator. Sucks, doesn't it?
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