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• Smokey Thomas, OPSEU President, talks about organizing 12,500 part-timers in Ontario.
• In South Korea, teaching part-time is killing some faculty, literally.
• Um..er...excuse us. We have some tips for dealing with disruptive students.
• An adjunct gives himself a sabbatical down Mexico way.
• and more...

FEATURES

A LOOK BACK - Australia
In the November/December 2004 "Colleagues Abroad" issue of Adjunct Advocate's readers discovered that in Australia the use of casual faculty, as part-timers are called there, is just as pervasive as it is in the U.S. Join us in a look back at that ground-breaking feature piece.

A LOOK BACK - Italy
In the May/June 2002 "Colleagues Abroad" issue, writer Michael P. Gerace interviewed David Petrie, the Chair of the Association of Foreign Language Lecturers in Italy. It was the first interview of Petrie in the American press, and the first major coverage of the battle being waged by foreign-language lecturers in Italy against job discrimination. Join us in a look back at this important interview.

A LOOK BACK - Japan
In the May/June 2002 "Colleagues Abroad" issue of Adjunct Advocate Anthony Rausch, a foreign lecturer at a national university in Japan, wrote about what it was like to teach off the tenure-track in Japan. The life of the gaikokujin kyoshi is not an easy one, readers discovered in this piece — the first published in the education press about gaikokujin kyoshi.

ASIA - South Korea
In South Korea, part-time lecturers earn low pay and suffer from a lack of respect in a society where respect is Queen and deference is King. It's killing them - literally. Six part-time lecturers have killed themselves recently. Our writer looks at why part-time employment is driving so many to despair.

NORTH AMERICA - Canada
It's always a said day when colleges lose their best faculty. It's sadder, still, when the faculty member desperately wants to stay on.

INTERVIEW
Smokey Thomas, president of OPSEU, talks about his union's drive to organize all of the part-time, contract and sessional faculty in Ontario, Canada's community colleges. If OPSEU succeeds, it will mean union representation for over 12,000 Canadian sessional faculty.

NEWS

Taking a Sabbatical South of the Border: An Adjunct Retreats to Mexico
Roy Freedman wanted a break from his heavy part-time teaching load. So, he saved up his money and headed south of the border. He may just go back for good.

DESK DRAWER

• Korean Lecturers Protest Low Pay and Shoddy Treatment
• Indian High Court Orders Part-Time Lecturers to Accept Unequal Pay
• Cardiologists to Settle UMDNJ Payoff Case
• Israel's Junior Lecturers Postpone Strike

ANALYSIS

28 Years & Counting: Foreign-Language Lecturers Versus Italy
What does it mean when people work for decades to change an unjust system and fail? In Italy, universities have dodged the law since 1980.

IN THE CLASSROOM

Handling Disruptive Students
Er...um...we don't mean to interrupt, but author John McIntosh has some great ideas about how you can handle disruptive students in the classroom.

REVIEWS

A Review of How the University Works
How the University Works is the first book of a writer who truly believes he has something important to share about what he perceives as the increasingly corporate nature of higher education. His audience is the choir, and he preaches up a storm.

A Review of Quick Hits for Educating Citizens: Successful Strategies by Award-Winning Teachers
In today's real-world, real-time academic climate, in which faculty are expected to teach beyond the textbook so that students can apply their skills outside of the classroom, Quick Hits for Educating Citizens: Successful Strategies by Award-Winning Teachers offers plenty of ideas to nudge or, if necessary, forcefully push students into service and contribute to the needs in their community.

OPINION

FIRST PERSON
Allison Dube, an award-winning lecturer at the University of Calgary, in Canada, is leaving his teaching job. Dr. Dube writes that he has finally seen the light.