Is it possible to advance from year-to-year contracts with UBC to permanent employment?
A full-time permanent teaching-oriented position does exist at UBC and is known as an instructor. An instructor’s primary duties are teaching, although they are also expect to perform service. Instructor I is a tenure-track appointment of three to five years after which, if tenure is achieved, the person becomes a Senior Instructor. All such permanent, full-time positions that become available at UBC must be posted both internally and externally. You are welcome to apply for any such positions for which you are qualified. You may also encourage your head to consider petitioning the Dean for more Instructor positions in your department if it clear that sessional lecturers are being hired year after year to perform core teaching duties, rather than just as temporary employees for sabbatical replacement, parental leaves, and sick leaves.
