How to Improve Your Student Evaluations
The very idea of student evaluations of teaching can spell terror for professors, but particularly adjunct faculty whose continued employed rests on the quality of the students' evaluations. This continues to be done despite the fact that…
Book Review: Teaching Strategies & Techniques for Adjunct Faculty, 6th ed.
The book uses bullet points, lists, infographics, and is organized beautifully. It is a pleasure to read, and it can be read in one sitting. The author uses the latest research to support many of the theories he espouses. I was impressed…
Five Easy Ways to Integrate Active Learning into Your Classroom
Students learn more if they are provided with opportunities to participate actively in the learning process, whether it is group discussion, flipped assignments, in-class practice or application.
United Steel Workers File to Represent 3,500 Part-Timers on Five Pitt Campuses
Pitt faculty began collecting confidential union cards in January 2018. Their goals include addressing concerns about pay and job security for adjunct and part-time faculty. They also would like to see more academic freedom and greater…
SEIU Ends Effort to Organize NTT Faculty at Vanderbilt
by Rachel Friedman In November 2018, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) withdrew its petition to unionize Non-Tenure Track (NTT) faculty members in the College of Arts and Science, marking the end of an ongoing movement to …
Why Wright State University PTers Should Apply for Striking FTers’ Jobs
Adjunct faculty support of or deference to full-time faculty who strike is lunacy. At Wright State University, these full-time faculty are striking because they want more money, don't like sharing more in the cost of the health care options…
Our Common Interest: Defending Higher Education and Changing the World (A Reply)
by Joseph G. Ramsey, Ph.D.
Having now re-read AdjunctNation's response to my essay "The Invisible Faculty," and having had a chance to digest a range of responses to both the AdjunctNation piece and mine, I'm prepared to offer some…
Why FT Faculty Will Never Speak Out for PT Faculty
The plea du jour to tenured and tenure-line college faculty is to "stand up" for adjunct and part-time teaching faculty. The argument is that in doing so those full-time faculty will benefit. This is yet another wild pitch in the dirt from…
Why The Poor Working Conditions For Part-timers Should Matter to Full-timers
But while the working conditions of these sessional instructors is a central problem to be tackled at universities, many full-time professors are also awakening to the rising difficulties associated with their job. In fact, the ‘sessional…
Science May Have Found a Cure for the “Adjunct Syndrome”
The challenges, struggles, poor pay and non-existent institutional support continue to crush the life out of hundreds of thousands of non-tenured faculty. Will the general public ever care? I don't think so. While mainstream media continue…