by Ryann Ellis Michael Allen is the CEO of Allen Interactions. For those of you not familiar with his work, Allen has been at the heart of the…
by P.D. Lesko It’s common for an institution to ask part-time faculty who develop courses for use on-line to sign some kind of on-line course development agreement.…
Analog: A signal that is received in the same form in which it is transmitted, while the amplitude and frequency may vary. Amplitude: The amount of variety…
by Jo Gibson Adjunct faculty have a wide comfort zone: they prepare lectures, monitor classroom discussion, devise tests, assign grades–no problem! However, even for faculty with wide-ranging…
by Mark J. Drozdowski America is blessed with some of the world’s great libraries. And nowadays, thanks to advances in technology, many of them have catalogued their…
A Tale of Gluttony and Greed in California I was so angry and frustrated after I read the May/June 2004 cover story that I could have spit…
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate presented its annual TCU Professor of the Year award to American Studies lecturer Jean Wu in June. Wu received her award…
A union of lecturers and adjunct faculty reached an agreement with the University of Michigan on higher salaries and new guarantees on job security. “We didn’t get…
by P.D. Lesko In this issue of the magazine, we take a look at The Chronicle of Higher Education. The newspaper, which has been covering higher education…
by Shari Dinkins “It gives the student a third point,” my full-time colleague says. I nod. “So that you are not the target.” Ah, yes, I nod…
