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Why We Won’t Be Seeing an “Adjunct Spring” Anytime Soon

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By Elayne Clift Is there any hope for college adjuncts? It was never my intention to teach when I was in the throes of my career as a health communications and gender specialist. But when I was invited to be a lecturer at Yale University’s School of Public Health I discovered I loved teaching, and [...]

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Is It Even Possible to Teach Critical Thinking to Today’s College Students?

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By Jenny Ortiz It’s no secret that as a society, we get our basic legal information from the television show “Law & Order.” When I interact with students, most cite this show along with “CSI,” “NCIS” and “House” as their favorites because they’re based on “real life.” I love television more than most, but I [...]

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The Freeway Flyer Survival Kit You Didn’t Even Know You Needed

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By Jenny Ortiz Remember the high school locker and how convenient it was? Books and jackets were left behind and locked up tight. My locker, although messy, was notorious for having everything: an extra pair of sneakers, sweaters, blank notebooks, make up, and anything else a high school girl needs for the day. Nowadays, I [...]

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Want to Be An Inspiring Teacher? Answer This Question: Why Do You Teach?

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By Bruce A. Johnson, Ph.D., MBA Your work as an adjunct instructor – do you remember how it all began? What initially inspired you to teach? Do you still feel the same today? If you have been teaching for any length of time you probably have a familiar routine established. You understand what’s expected for [...]

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LinkedIn Reports “Adjunct Professor” is The Fastest Growing Job Title in America

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Official statistics can tell you how many workers were jobless last month, how many had college degrees and how many worked in construction. But they cannot tell you how many know Hadoop, a software for managing data that is much in demand these days. LinkedIn, however, says it knows that, and much else gleaned from [...]

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“Critical Thinking” – The Online Education Buzz-Phrase

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by Robert Borger It seems to me that the new buzzword in online education is “Critical Thinking.”  I just completed a Webinar about the topic last month, have plenty of messages about how to increase critical thinking with my students, and see it come up in grading templates and rubrics continually.  This is something that [...]

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The New Conservative Presidential Candidate: College is For Morons

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By P.D. Lesko In live in Michigan and at the moment, I wish that I didn’t. Presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are fighting it out for the state’s delegates and it’s, well, one of the most tedious, repetitive, breathy news cycle I have lived through in quite some time. There are panting press [...]

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Should Online Students Get to Choose Their Instructor(s)?

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By Bruce A. Johnson, Ph.D., MBA When students enroll in online classes, they often do not get to choose their instructors for and may not find out who the instructor for a particular class will be until the class starts. The question to consider is whether or not it would be of benefit for students [...]

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New Faculty Majority Faces Same Old Problems & Offers Same Old Solutions

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By P.D. Lesko Don’t get me wrong. The New Faculty Majority is filled with dedicated, intelligent and passionate individuals committed to effecting lasting change within higher education. Some of them are the same dedicated, intelligent and passionate individuals who have been speaking out on behalf of faculty off the tenure-track for the past 20 years [...]

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Questionable Professionalism & New Adjuncts — Drawing the Line

By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. True headline: “Campus Shock: Michigan Professor Actually Takes Nude Pictures…With Student.” Wow. Just wow. Seriously? Where do I begin? When you first read that headline, since you are most likely an educator, don’t you say to yourself, “Ugh, I would never do that!”? I think of myself in this situation and [...]

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