Dr. Brown’s Revolt

I read the profile of Dr. Peter D.G. Brown (November/December Adjunct Advocate 2005) with much interest. I have worked at my institution as a part-time lecturer for more than seven years. In that time, I have witnessed the usual outrages and petty humiliations: people not rehired for seemingly no good reason, classes pulled at the last moment, etc... I finished the profile, closed the magazine and wondered where my Dr. Brown is hiding.

In my department, there are over 20 tenured faculty. They are the ones with the perks, prerogatives and power. Yet, unlike Peter Brown, not a one of them has seen fit in all these years to speak up on behalf of the department’s large contingent of full-time and part-time lecturers. Why? Is it that they were deprived of the kind of childhood Dr. Brown had? Did the parents of the tenured faculty in my department never reach out to help others? I think not.

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