When Your Semester Starts Without a Contract
In my inbox yesterday: “I am about to begin teaching tomorrow and I have yet to receive my contract…” My correspondent, an adjunct instructor in a philosophy department at a highly regarded private university, notes that this is not the only time this has happened nor are they the only person to whom it has happened. And it has highly objectionable consequences, as they explain: At my university… if you don’t receive your contract by a certain time, your pay can often be delayed by one or two months, as you only get paid once a month at the end of the month, and [at the earliest] not until the end of the first month of classes in the Fall. This leads to scenarios in which, through no fault of my own, I am expected to teach for free with no guaranteed money coming in, and no knowledge of when I will be paid exactly. The instructor brought this to my attention, they say, because “I imagine this happens elsewhere, and I think it is one of the things that should be part of the conversation about adjunct rights.” The university, or someone at the university, is not giving (the prospect of) this intolerable situation the attention it deserves. If an institution is going to rely on instructors hired on annual contracts, its bureaucracy ought to be able to expedite those contracts and pay the instructors in a timely manner. Does this problem occur at your university? Is it ongoing and addressed with remedial measures (and if so, what)? Did it used to and was resolved (if so, how)? Discussion welcome.
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