First off, Happy New Year to all of our readers! I am looking forward to 2008 as a pivotal year in the life of the Adjunct Advocate…
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I want to talk a little bit about changes that have been made recently here at Adjunct Advocate. Of course, the most important change is that the…
I received a letter in late-November from someone wanting a copy of "Adjunct as Object: A Look At a Dozen Dissertations." It was published in the July/August…
For those unfamiliar with this particular saint, St. Lawrence was roasted alive on a grill. Legend has it that rather than tell the Roman soldiers where the…
It has been a loooooong road making the switch from print to digital. Thus far, we have had nothing but positive responses from readers. I have been…
On the 20th of November, the New York Times ran a piece titled "Decline of Tenure Track Raises Concerns." In that piece, Keith Hoeller, an adjunct activist…
by Kristen Kennedy Recent figures put the number of contingent faculty working in colleges and universities at 65 percent of the 1.3 million faculty currently teaching in the…
This issue marks the second time we have looked at the use of part-time faculty in countries other than the United States. The first time, in the…
Waiting for the Green I teach at a community college in Iowa. At the end of the Winter Term last year, someone got the idea that we…
by P.D. Lesko September is a very busy month for part-time faculty. Some aren’t sure what their final teaching schedules will look like, others have their courses,…