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GESO protests trend in hiring primarily part-time faculty

Contributing Reporter
Published Wednesday, April 25, 2007

College Street became a classroom Tuesday afternoon as Yale’s Graduate Employees and Students Organization organized to protest the University’s increasing reliance on part-time instructors.

250 graduate students, staff and faculty members staged a teach-out on College Street yesterday to protest a trend toward casualization — the increased employment of teachers on a part-time rather than a full-time basis — which they claim is damaging education at Yale and at campuses nationwide. The teach-out outlined why shifting from a primarily tenure-track faculty to a primarily part-time...

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