In 2006, parents of a newborn there could buy an eight-semester contract for tuition (though not room and board) to attend its flagship university for $41,493.
Adjuncts are generally hired on semester-to-semester contracts, given no health insurance or retirement benefits, no office, no professional development, and few university resources.
At the end of the semester his contract was not renewed and he gave a farewell party.
The use of sessional academic staff, contracted semester by semester, has become a characteristic of the Higher Education landscape across the world, and it can be argued that this type of employment, in itself, disadvantages staff in taking up formal and informal professional development.
Even the condition of Trollope's curates, like poor Mr. Quiverful, is exactly reproduced by those long-term adjuncts who teach semester to semester and live contract to contract.
"We are like the migrants who pick apples, with a new contract every semester," he said.
"I had a contract last semester where I was given 18 minutes per term paper," she said.
Still, she shoots herself in the foot by attempting to rebut Scalzi with the ludicrous claim that, "a one-on-one session with a trusted professor who knows a student's work and ambitions is more useful than a semester-long course on contract law".
Women are entitled to at least 16 weeks' paid maternity leave under French law, but if they find out you are pregnant, they simply don't renew your contract for the next semester.
In the fall semester, Dr. Coleman declined to renew the contracts of two teachers, Steven Cramer, a poet, and Tony Eprile, a South African novelist, even though they had been recommended by the faculty review committee.
I'm interested in working part time or on a contract basis doing engineering work during semester breaks or other slack times.
