Ontario: Part-timers key to York stalemate

by E Wayne Ross on January 21, 2009

Toronto Star: Part-timers key to York stalemate

Lykke de la Cour, after 15 years as a York lecturer in women’s studies, still has to reapply for a new contract each year. “It’s not fair,” she says.

Bulging ranks of those without tenure, who run over half of undergrad classes, seek job security

Lykke de la Cour gets up weekdays at 4 a.m. She finds she writes her best lectures then; she’s too tired at night.

She knows this from preparing hundreds of lectures over 15 years for more than 20 courses at York University about women and the disabled and health and law.