by TAA Staff A MICHIGAN TASK force has asked the state legislature to look into the growing reliance of community colleges on part-time teachers. The task force, composed of representatives from fifteen state universities and community colleges, has asked the legislature to study both the...
Author: AdjunctNation Editorial Team
by TAA Staff SOME PROFESSORS SEE nothing to fear in the growing number of adjuncts on campus. The strike at Long Island University’s C. W. Post campus may give them.
by TAA Staff UNIVERSITY LECTURERS from ethnic minorities earn less than white lecturers, are less likely to have a senior job, and their jobs are less secure, says a new.
by TAA Staff THE FACULTY UNION at Algonquin College, in Nepean, Ontario, has filed several grievances regarding college hiring part-time and sessional faculty over full-time faculty. “This is not a new thing, in the sense that for years in many areas of the college there...
by Jennifer Berkshire Michael Dubson has never thought of himself as an activist. An adjunct professor of English at several Boston-area colleges, Dubson feels more at home in front of.
by P.D. Lesko EACH YEAR U.S. News and World Report publishes a list of university and college rankings based, in part, on information supplied by participating institutions. The Petersen’s Guides.
by Chris Cumo ROME BUILT AN empire of roads, baths and aqueducts. Some 1,500 years after the empire disintegrated, Florida is building a vast network of community colleges. Its 28, many with multiple campuses, teemed with 753,255 students, according to the Florida Community College System Web...
by P.D. Lesko I WANT TO have lunch with Manfredi La Manna. Anyone who can price a journal subscription at $700 and come out looking like the guy in the.
by Chris Cumo WERE GOD AN Ivy Leaguer, his 11th commandment would be publish or perish. The words reverberate through academic libraries and archives. In the Darwinian competition for jobs and promotions, ostensibly.
by Lee Shainen CONVENTIONAL WISDOM DICTATES that adjuncts have no power; their voices are not heard, except in the classroom. The voice of unconventional wisdom says, au contraire. Watch out now; I’m going to display a small bit of adjunct power right before your eyes. Sunglasses...
