I would like to add a note of support for Margaret Van Dijk's comment on October 18th in regards to the on-going community college strike.

I have been a professor at a community college for the past 28 years and have watched full time faculty replaced by part time and sessional instructors, to the point where 75 percent of faculty are part time. These faculty members are incredibly talented and committed but receive almost no support from college administration. They are contract workers who must re-apply every four months for a new contract. They make about $38,000 per year and have no job security what so ever. 

This strike is about fairness to these excellent members of the college community as well as real issues of faculty involvement in academic issues that effect the classroom.

Scott Nichols