News For the Adjunct Faculty Nation

Duquesne U. Appeals Adjuncts Unionization Vote

Duquesne University adjunct faculty members may have to wait longer to hear results of their vote on whether to unionize and affiliate with the United Steelworkers, pending action on an appeal by the university that could invalidate the whole process. The regional office of the National...

Adjunct “Monsters,” “Fast-Food Faculty” and “Nameless Bodies”

by P.D. Lesko With friends like these...I'm sure Mark Miller is a fine, upstanding fellow. He is the president of the Hancock College part-time faculty union, and has been the.

Part-Time Faculty Union Prez Publishes Op-Ed Calling His Own Members "Monsters"

by Mark James Miller The American higher educational system has created a monster — the out-of-control growth of part-time or adjunct faculty. In its over-reliance on part-time instructors, higher education has.

Yo! AAUP. You Call This A Plan For Progress? Seriously?!?

by Debra Leigh Scott I was appalled to read The Chronicle article about the AAUP “plan” to provide “Better Pay, Job Stability, and a Career Path for Contingent Faculty” — to present this plan as anything but the atrocity it is…well, I am shocked and infuriated. Since I...

Almost 70 Percent of Classroom Faculty Fear The Growth of Online Learning

Over six million students are now taking at least one online course, upping the rate of online enrollment to 10 times that of traditional higher education. Yet, while the world is.

Fraud: The Reason Why Your International Students May Be Woefully Unprepared

by Daniel Guhr Until recently, it has been easy to ignore the impact of fraud on international education given that little systematic data exists on its breadth and pervasiveness. In.

Waiting

by Mark J. Drozdowski University of Cincinnati president Dr. Nancy Zimpher is the author of several books one of which is titled, A Time for Boldness: A Story of Institutional Change. Ironically, since 2003 Dr. Zimpher has refused to recognize the part-time faculty union formed at...

Internal Report Reveals Harvard Uses An Army of Non-Tenured Faculty To Teach One-Third Of All Courses

By Radhika Jain, Matthew T. Lowe, and Kevin J. Wu David J. Malan ’99 (far right in the photo below), whose introductory computer course CS50 has seen enrollment more than triple since he.

What Online Students Say About… Assessment

by Diane J. Goldsmith, Ph.D. Feedback. Feedback. Feedback • Feedback needs to be timely: “Personal communication and prompt feedback on assignments are essential for any course to be a success.”.

If You Think Custom Textbooks Are Good For Students, Think Again

by Jed Davis Textbooks costs, which have far outpaced the cost of inflation in the previous decade, are a longstanding problem among college students. The textbook industry has developed increasingly sophisticated ways to extract profit from their products. The result is a new problem for students,...

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