by Brian Cole In her 17 years as a U.S. and California state History adjunct, Jean Culp experienced first-hand the hardships of being a part-timer on the campus of Citrus Community College. Among them were low pay, the lack of medical benefits, strict limits on...
Author: AdjunctNation Editorial Team
by P.D. Lesko IN THE MARCH 28, 2003 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, I read a piece about a part-time faculty member at Citrus College who had been.
by Shari Dinkins I broke up with my girlfriend. Oh, we’re back together. Well, the cops got involved. It wasn’t my fault. So, what were the assignments due last week?.
by Susan Muaddi Darraj Last week, I walked into my class, ready to deliver the evening’s lesson on the differences between inductive and deductive argumentative essays. I had carefully planned for this evening, and designed an activity I was sure would help cement the students’...
by Vicki Urquhart In reality, campus murders are relatively rare; yet, from Harvard to Oxford to the University of New Mexico, there is no shortage of murder mysteries set on.
[private] by John Shannon It is fair to say that Chile is only just beginning to appear on the ESL map. For many years geographically and politically isolated, Chile has.
by Evelyn Beck In Scott Simkins’s economics classes at North Carolina State University in Greensboro, N.C., students try to predict the future—but not for traditional economics subjects. “Students aren’t predicting the price of pork bellies next week but rather who’s going to win the election...
Almost two years after part-time teachers at Emerson College voted to establish a labor union—the first of its kind at a private college in New England—they are still without a.
The Ohio Health Care Program, the agency of the Ohio State Teachers Retirement System (STRS) in Columbus, Ohio that provides access to medical coverage to retired faculty in the state’s.
by Chris Cumo The glossy cover of the brochure invites readers to “Teach at the leading university for working professionals.” Inside the brochure, the University of Phoenix promises potential faculty that they can tuck teaching into their busy careers while gaining greater expertise through their...
