Columbia College Overpaid 14 Adjuncts. Now, the College Wants Its Money Back
One unassuming day, Kayli Plotner picked up the phone when she realized a Chicago number had been trying to reach her. It was a payroll officer from Columbia who told her she was overpaid in the Fall 2019 semester, and she now owed the…
Adjunct Faculty Face Challenges Adjusting to Emergency Online Instruction
by Rebecca Koenig Like many others teaching college classes across the country, Sharyn Hardy spent the last few days figuring out how to translate her carefully crafted classroom lectures into lessons that her students can learn online. Yet…
Oregon House Bill Would Require State to Pay 90 Percent of Health Care Premiums for Adjuncts
From the Summary of Oregon House Bill 4146: Provides that part-time faculty member at public institution of higher education who qualifies for health care benefits will pay 10 percent of insurance premiums for employee coverage. Requires…
Book Review: Why They Can’t Write
Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and other Necessities By: Bethany Chappel, M.Ed. Students across America sit at their desks in classrooms with teachers who have been given clear expectations about the written work that these students…
The Midwestern Black Professor Teaching MAGA Babies Is Not All Right
“My adjunct teaching job wound up being a lot more than I bargained for.”
by Jonita Davis
My job in 2017 was to teach Composition I to new college students, showing them how to express themselves through writing. My role quickly…
U.S. Court of Appeals: Duquesne Adjuncts Can’t Unionize
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled Jan. 28 that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has no jurisdiction over the university’s adjunct faculty. According to the ruling, the NLRB does not have the authority to…
Teaching — It’s About Inspiration, Not Information
“Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.” Theodore Roosevelt
by Tina Seelig
This is an important reminder that teaching is all about building a relationship with your students. In fact, in today’s world,…
How to Get Published as an Educator
by Paul Thomas
One of the best and most significant changes for me when I moved from high school English teaching to being a college professor was a blossoming of my life as a writer.
In the spring of my first year of…
At Clark College, Adjuncts Will Earn 65 Percent of FT Faculty Pay Rates
by Don McIntosh After 15 months of frustrating negotiations, it took just two days of striking for about 500 community college faculty to win the best union contract they’ve ever had. Members of Clark College Association for Higher…
Book Review: Going the Distance: A Handbook for Faculty Who Teach Online (Second Edition)
Reviewed by Doreen Lewis, PhD This is a review of Going the Distance: A Handbook for Faculty Who Teach Online (Second Edition) by Happy Gingras, Patricia Adams and Evelyn Beck, Copyright 2019, Part-Time Press, Inc. ISBN-13:…
