My concern for my campus is the increasing number of part-time associate lecturers. Instead of opening lines for tenure track and hiring more lecturers, the university is hiring the lowest level, called an associate lecturer.
They have no benefits. They have no just cause, nothing for three years. They are contract, semester by semester. You have to work for four semesters to get some sort of protection. The pay is, give or take, $5,200 for a semester course.
You would think, as a community, that the administration would want to have a great relationship with the faculty because we are the ones in the classroom. But they like to try to divide us by rank and they try to keep costs down.
Caroline Coscia, President of the FSU chapter at UMass Boston
