By Erik Hanson My typical weekday begins before 5 a.m., which I’m sure is unthinkable to some, and all too familiar to others. The main reason is because of the class load I took on this semester, combined with how far I have to travel in...
By Dorinda Fox Sometimes it is not about the box of chocolates. In the past month the following has happened: I have walked into classrooms filled with somewhat fearful but.
According to this piece from the Palm Beach Post web site, the for profit South University president John Peterson, disinvited all of the school's adjunct faculty from the annual holiday.
In Israel, as I wrote earlier this month, tenured and tenure-line faculty have been on strike since the first day of classes. The strike, now in its eighth week, isn't producing quite the effect the faculty union intended. A quick look at this piece from the...
AA 52 More Perspectives I'd like to continue last week's process of breaking out of my own habitual limits by seeing the topic of adjuncts and writing from other.
By P.D. Lesko Over the course of the past three years, adjunct and part-time faculty have been systematically scape-goated for any number of problems plaguing the Academy. Students dropping out.
By Jenny Ortiz Martial arts film star Bruce Lee has taught me that to be a good teacher, I have to remain a student. The best place to continue learning has been in the classes I teach. No matter how many times I teach a short story, and no...
Surf the net to the web pages of part-time faculty unions affiliated with any of the Big Three labor unions and look at the posted budgets. Hell, surf on over.
By Kat Kiefer-Newman I went to a job fair recently. The CCC Registry (California Community Colleges Registry) just had one in L.A. and my dear friend Emma and I optimistically.
By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. AdjunctNation.com has a wonderful blog, The Freeway Flyer, written by Helene Matheny, who writes about teaching at multiple campuses (among other things). I enjoy reading Helene's blog because as a new adjunct, I do this on a small scale—I teach at...
