By Jenny Ortiz As a Freeway Flyer, the end of semester always comes with a mountain of paperwork and the hope that my contract is renewed for another term. Given that I bounce around from one campus to the other, I have to make sure my...
I have just started reading Dr. Mark Bousquet's book How The University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation. I found Cary Nelson's introduction slightly out of touch with reality..
One of the things that struck me when I started working on this blog was how little research had been done into the great sea change of academic labor that.
This week we've got a rare perspective on the question of adjuncts and writing: a brief interview with a university president who is also a former adjunct. Alan Walker is president of Upper Iowa University. He's a former (and long term) adjunct—and president of a school...
By Kat Kiefer-Newman Over the holidays I went to a department Christmas party with a friend and fellow adjunct professor. This was a party thrown by the Chair of the.
By Rich Russell The answer to the question I get asked "all" the time is, yes — I do actually sometimes wear pajamas while teaching online. I'm an early riser, and.
By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. A conversation came up recently with friends about what people are passionate about. I know people who are passionate about their hobbies (hockey, bicycling, cooking), causes (Race for the Cure, their alma mater), things (shoes, purses, toys, cars, homes), families (raising...
By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. A conversation came up recently with friends about what people are passionate about. I know people who are passionate about their hobbies (hockey, bicycling, cooking),.
By Lance Eaton “yo prof what’s homework for today —me” (typical email received 10 minutes before class at least five times per semester from different students) Email is the great.
By Bruce A. Johnson, Ph.D., MBA Why should an instructor care what their students are thinking? Students are expected to be involved in the process of learning and focused on meeting the assigned learning objectives. This means that they are required to have an ability to...
