UPEIFA Members Prioritize Fairness For Contract Academic Faculty
Supporting All Teaching Faculty Is Key To Preserving UPEI’s Educational Excellence
In recent years, UPEI has become increasingly reliant on exploitive short-term teaching contracts that offer poverty-level wages with no benefits and little to no teaching support. While we recognize the various pressures that come to bear on a university’s budget, we also assert that there is no excuse for the exploitation of one group of teachers. In a very real sense, UPEI’s many recent expansion projects have been paid for no the backs of our contract academic faculty members. This serves neither faculty nor students.
UPEIFA is bringing proposals to the table that would equalize pay and provide job security and benefits to part-time faculty who teach regularly, allowing them to focus on their students.
Proposals include:
By bringing proposals for a fair deal for Contract Academic Faculty to the table, UPEIFA is Bargaining For A Better UPEI.