The email invitation to blog for AdjunctNation.com went out to about 1,000 part-time faculty registered on the site. The replies came back, some within minutes. The application…
The email invitation to blog for AdjunctNation.com went out to about 1,000 part-time faculty registered on the site. The replies came back, some within minutes. The application…
By Rich Russell In Blackboard there is a Roster tool, where students (and the professor) can post pictures of themselves, and I encourage (but do not require)…
There’s a difference for instructors between getting along with students and finding a way to work with them throughout the duration of the class. Instructors who develop…
By Kat Kiefer-Newman I was late. It almost never happens, but this semester I have an eight o'clock class and it's sometimes difficult to get ready and…
I had an interesting conversation with some colleagues recently. By now, I am used to people thinking I am crazy for trying out more than one institution…
From The Economist: Fifty years ago, in the glorious age of three-martini lunches and all-smoking offices, America’s car companies were universally admired. Everybody wanted to know the…
By Lance Eaton There comes a point in every semester during which the Freeway Flyer must partake of the powerful and seductive dance I like to call:…
By Erik Hanson I am sometimes plagued by an irrational fear for my job. Perhaps an explanation through analogy is in order. I grew up on a…
I couldn't resist putting two and two together. The Washington Post has a piece today about the fact that more women than men snagged Ph.Ds during the…
