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More Classes More Money! When is Enough....Enough?

by Robert Borger I have always had more than one job, ever since I started working.  This all started before high school, when I started the typical lawn mowing service for friends and neighbors for fun money.  I actually remember the article I read as a kid about letting people know about your willingness to work, so I put together a flyer and stuffed the mailboxes [read more]

President of American Council on Education Predicts Increases in Use of Non-Tenured Faculty

Sometimes our cousins on the other side of the Atlantic ask the questions that the American higher education media don't ask. The Guardian is one of England's must-read newspapers for its extensive higher education coverage of not only the U.K.'s system, but the U.S. higher education system, as well. The paper's editors recently asked higher education leaders in the U.S., Australia, India and South Africa [read more]

When Is One More Chance One More Too Many? Student Excuses

By Jenny Ortiz Given that classes during winter sessions are so short, missing a class or two can mean failing the class. Currently at LaGuardia, my students and I have only two months together in which to answer to What is Literature? Every class is fast-paced and new material is presented. Given the time frame, the students are very aware of their absences and when they [read more]

A Long Overdue Welcome to AdjunctNation 4.0

by P.D. Lesko This is a long overdue welcome to the newly redesigned AdjunctNation.com. As always, getting a redesign done always takes more time than one ever expects. This is the fourth major redesign of the site since we put up our first web page in 1993. The technology has advanced by leaps and bounds. What we are able to do with the large volume [read more]

The Princes of Academe: How Academic Administration is Hurting Education

By Jenny Ortiz There's a difference between blue and yellow. There's an obvious difference between a house and a cardboard box. When did the difference between academic administration and politicians become so hard to define and separate? Recently, I was at a workshop on the history of women within the Taoism community, hosted by one of the colleges I work at. Although I was enjoying the lecture, [read more]

Are Adjuncts At Risk of Failing Our At Risk Students?

By Jenny Ortiz Student 1 is always 2 minutes late because her job won't let her leave early. Student 2 has never been to the museum. Student 3 is pledging to a fraternity while, his buddy, student 4 is trying to keep a GPA of 3.89. Student 5 has severe PTSD from his time as a US Marine and student 6 is unaware of her PTSD [read more]

What Does Your Online Image Say About You?

By Bruce A. Johnson, Ph.D., MBA As an online instructor do you consider the virtual or perceptual image you have established with your students? Do you consider the image you portray and how this image is developed throughout the course? If so, how do you manage your image? An online instructor is represented with every classroom posting and every message sent to the students. A virtual [read more]

Are Your Students Prepared For College When They Get To Class?

By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. Are your students prepared for your class when they walk through your door? I read an interesting article about the preparedness (or lack thereof) of many college students for what awaits them in higher education. The New York Times article tell us that "the new statistics, part of a push to realign state standards with college performance, show that only 23 percent [read more]

Smart Classrooms Being Abandoned For Smarter Students: Should Profs Ban Technology in Class?

By Jenny Ortiz Most of your students don't know who Chuck Norris is. Many of them don't watch as much television as you think. The only reading they do is if it is assigned to them and that is done haphazardly. The news is not only filtered by the media but by their friend who happens to be a political science major. As much as technology [read more]

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Are Your Students Prepared For College When They Get To Class? »

Melissa_Miller By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. Are your students prepared for your class when they walk through your door? I read an interesting article about the preparedness (or lack thereof) of many college students…

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Ever Miss Being The Student? »

Melissa_Miller By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. Do you ever miss being a student? I don’t mean a student of the world, or a life-long learner, as those of us in education tend to be.…

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For Adjuncts Life Can Be Tough, But Let’s Accentuate the Positive »

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Melissa_Miller By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. Let’s accentuate the positive. In this time of protests, war, and crises of epic porportions, perspective is in order for my world. I love my profession and am…

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When the Prof Misses Being the Student »

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admin By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. Do you ever miss being a student? I don’t mean a student of the world, or a life-long learner, as those of us in education tend to be.…

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Is Google Destroying Higher Education? »

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Melissa_Miller By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. I just read a great book. It’s titled, “The Googlization of Everything,” by Siva Vaidhyanathan and it discusses the impacts of Google technology on our world. Of particular…

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New Adjunct: The Similarities Between Poker & Teaching Part-Time »

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admin By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. My husband and I belong to a poker group that meets about once per month. It’s a casual game, and we also take turns cooking dinner for each…

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Interview With Dr. Kirk Astle (Part II) »

admin Last week we shared the first portion of an interview with Dr. Kirk Astle, Director of College Writing at…

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Write On! An Interview With Dana S. Dunn »

admin This week we’re shifting focus a bit. Dana S. Dunn is Professor of Psychology at Moravian College in Bethlehem,…

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Two Writers, One Adjunct, Two Lessons, One Lesson? »

admin I received a brief and surprising email today. The first surprise was that the email arrived at all. You…

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A First Look at Lore and Bits »

admin Part of what I’ve been doing in this blog is noodling around the questions of how adjunct writers’ circumstances…

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Contextual Pressure, Contextual Support »

admin Scholars on the tenure-track have contextual support to write and publish. In the best positions, this takes the form…

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  4. Part-Timers Teach the Majority of Courses & Earn Peanuts. So Why Is Higher Ed. So Expensive?
  5. When Is One More Chance One More Too Many? Student Excuses
  6. 500 American University Part-Timers Consider Joining SEIU
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Hire-A-Pirate Service Seeks to Make Rented e-Textbooks More, Ahem, “Affordable” For Students »

admin During August, just before the start of the new school term, TorrentFreak reported on LibraryPirate, a site with a mission of providing college students with an alternative to continuously rising textbook prices. Bemoaning what he sees as greedy profiteering, LibraryPirate’s admin says the year-old site’s aim is clear. “Our mission is simple and specific,” he told TorrentFreak.…

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Black Professors Are A Must For Black College Students »

admin by B. Viera Graduate school at a predominantly white institution was a complete culture shock after four years of attending a historically black college and university. Since the age of 10 I knew I would attend and graduate from an HBCU. Both my mother and my aunt were products of HBCUs, and I understood early…

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Cloud Computing Research Tools — Free Resources For Faculty »

admin by G. Andrew Page Twenty-first Century research is increasingly becoming reliant on information and communication technologies to address systemic and distinct educational problems through greater communication, interaction, and inquiry. Research is an interactive inquiry process. In many instances this involves interaction with people. We also interact with technology and through technology to improve our educational…

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Study Concludes Online College Enrollment Growing Exponentially Faster Than Student Population »

admin by Joe McKendrick More than six million college and university students took at least one online course during the fall 2010 term, an increase of 560,000 students over the previous year.  This almost 10 percent growth rate for online enrollments far exceeds the less-than-1 percent growth in the overall higher education student population nationwide.  …

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Part-Time Paramours: Who’s Zooming Whom? »

admin By Kat Kiefer-Newman Over the holidays I went to a department Christmas party with a friend and fellow adjunct professor. This was a party thrown by the Chair of the Department at one of the colleges my friend (not I) teaches at, and both full-time and part-time faculty members mingled. I went with him because…

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The Tipping Point: Research Suggests A College Education Is No Longer Worth the Time & Money »

admin by Marty Nemko We have, for decades, accepted that graduates earn $1 million more than non-graduates over their lifetime. That statistic is misleading for a number of reasons. For example,…

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The Next Higher Education Woe That Will Be Blamed on Adjuncts »

admin By P.D. Lesko Over the course of the past three years, adjunct and part-time faculty have been systematically scape-goated for any number of problems plaguing the Academy. Students dropping out…

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Interviews

An Interview With Barbara Wolf »

admin by Chris Carter with an introduction by Evelyn Beck Until she investigated the appalling working conditions of adjuncts, filmmaker Barbara Wolf thought they had it pretty good. “Those of us…

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An Interview with Dr. Dan Jacoby »

admin Interviewed by P.D. Lesko Please tell us a little about yourself professionally. Well, I’m an economist who has had the fortune of working in an interdisciplinary studies program for the…

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