Please remember this: the best thing you can do as a contingent faculty member is join a union. Our part-timers are unionized, and none of the horror stories we hear about the mistreatment of instructors and lecturers can happen to them. The moment an administrator tries to treat them as disposable, the union steps in, and the administrator has to choke on these wrong-headed decisions.
If there is no union on campus, contact any existing union that has organizers nearby and ask them to send organizers.
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