TABLE OF CONTENTS
Check out the latest issue of Adjunct Advocate online.
The AdjunctNation.com Podcast Interview Series. Check out the latest links.
The AdjunctNation.com Blogs. Will yours be our next "Reader Comment" of the week?
HOT jobs. Apply today! These jobs close soon.
Preparing A Teaching Portfolio.
Designing More Usable Web Sites.
Our adjunct resource of the week.
From our "GOING THE DISTANCE" Message Board.
Good books.
Subscribe to the Adjunct Advocate magazine online.
Manage your subscription to the e-Advocate Newsletter.
ON OUR WEBSITE THIS WEEK
"Faculty Senates: The Last Bastion of Patrician Privilege" by Chris Cumo
Like nearly every college and university, Santa Rosa Junior College in Santa Rosa, California relies on part-time faculty. With 320 full-time faculty, the College employs 1100 part-time faculty, says adjunct professor of political science Michael Ludder. He adds that part-time faculty teach 45 percent of all credit courses and 95 percent of all non-credit courses. This means adjuncts teach the majority of student contact hours.
Yet, the Santa Rosa Junior College Academic Senate (the Faculty Senate) does not reflect the number and importance of the college’s part-time faculty. Before 1996, the Senate included no adjuncts. In 1996, full-time faculty opened two seats on the Senate to adjuncts and allowed them to vote in two of their own, one of whom was Michael Ludder. Full-time faculty held firmly on to the remaining 24 seats....”
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CHECK OUT THE ADJUNCTNATION.COM PODCAST INTERVIEW SERIES. AdjunctNation.com Family membership required. Login, then download podcasts, or use our AdjunctNation Pod Player to listen online.
"Matthew Henry Hall: Man of Mystery" – an interview with the Adjunct Advocate's very own cartoonist, Matthew Henry Hall. Matt talks about what drove him from the college classroom and into cartooning, Super Adjunct, singing and skewering the higher ups.
"Smokey Thomas to the Rescue" – an interview with the president of OPSEU, Warren (Smokey) Thomas, who has launched an unprecedented drive to organize all of Ontario, Canada's 14,000 part-time and sessional faculty.
"Dr Brown's Revolt" – an interview with full-time faculty member Dr. Peter Brown, who has worked tirelessly on behalf of the 8000 part-time faculty employed in the SUNY system.
"SEIU Local 500: Eight Years in the Making" – an interview with Kip Lornell and Libby Smigel, both part-time faculty members at George Washington University. They talk about the long road to the organization and recognition of the 1,200 member part-time faculty union.
"Walking the Picket Line Along the Loyalist Highway" – Dr. Judy Bates, President of the Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty Association, in Ontario, Canada, discusses the circumstances surrounding the first-ever strike of WLU's 366 contract faculty.
"AAUP at a Crossroads: An Interview With AAUP President Cary Nelson, Part 1 of 2" – The first order of business for Dr. Cary Nelson is to get himself re-elected. After that, he intends to lead AAUP straight into the skirmish to organize and represent the nation's 700,000 part-time faculty--one campus at a time.
CHECK OUT THE ADJUNCTNATION.COM BLOGS
"Before leaving the teaching profession to become a freelance writer in the college textbook publishing field, I was an adjunct instructor at Butte College and Shasta College, two community colleges in northern California."—in response to "Community: NBC’s New Show No Laughing Matter." Why not join in on the conversation? Leaving a blog comment is a sure way to connect with your part-time colleagues from around the country.
Read the newest blog, "Negotiating the Paradox: Adjuncts & Writing," by Greg Beatty: "Alternative Faculty, Alternative Writing." To comment and join in on the conversation, click here.
TEACHING TIP
What is a teaching portfolio? It is a factual description of a professor's teaching accomplishments supported by relevant data and analyzed by the professor to show the thinking process behind the artifacts. Most portfolios are not collections of everything that the professor has done in the way of teaching over his or her entire career. Rather they are selected samples that illustrate how that individual's teaching is carried out in the various venues in which teaching occurs. To read more, click here.
HANG 10 ON THE WEB
Designing more usable web sites. Check out this extensive collection of resources to make your web site more accessible here.
ADJUNCT RESOURCE OF THE WEEK
"Magna Publications Newsletters." The Teaching Professor newsletter. To check it out, click here.
To suggest a resource you love, click here.
ADJUNCTNATION JOBS: To view the jobs, follow the links. If you've landed a job listed on our site, we want to hear from you! Email us. Sign up for our new job alert emails! You pick the discipline(s), and when new jobs are posted, you'll be automatically notified. To sign up for job alerts in your discipline, click here.
Hot Jobs! Apply today! These jobs close soon. Check out these (and all of the) jobs on our site. It's the largest collection of jobs for part-time, adjunct, full-time temporary, and visiting jobs online:
Instructor Position in PET Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University.
Adjunct (Part-Time) Instructors - Math, Brown Mackie College-Fort Wayne.
Adjunct Faculty - Accounting, Cuyahoga Community College.
Adjunct (Part-Time) Instructors - Sociology, Brown Mackie College-Fort Wayne.
Assistant Professor full-time temporary, American, African American, Public History, Armstrong Atlantic State University.
FROM THE MESSAGE BOARDS: GOING THE DISTANCE
Do you teach online? Want to connect with other college faculty who teach online? Interested in learning more about distance education? Have some tips and suggestions to share with your distance educator colleagues? This is the spot for you!
Hi All,
I am compiling a list of unionized colleges and universities nationwide. Please list the names of any that you know of. If you have a link to the contract of union website that would be great, but is not necessary.
To post your replies, click here.
GOOD BOOKS....
Teaching Strategies & Techniques for Adjunct Faculty, by Dr. Donald Greive
$10 per copy. Available here.
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