Author: AdjunctNation Editorial Team

Paradigm Shift: More than 40 Percent of College Students Now Adult Learners

By Joseph Dussault Each year, legions of adult learners – that is, students who are 25 years old or older – take a first or second chance at higher education. This growing demographic tends to be ambitious, capable, and eager to learn. But until now,...

Diversity and the Exploitiation of Adjunct Professors

by Jennifer Jean This past May, I drove Professor Gwendolyn Rosemond home after she attended one of the bi-annual artist retreats I co-direct with my husband—we traveled along scenic route.

New Study: Jobs With Tenure Few and Far Between for Adjunct Women

by Kent McDonald Tenure is a goal many professors strive for — but it remains further out of reach for women and underrepresented minorities, according to a recent research study from.

In Memphis, College President Proposes First Pay Hike for Adjuncts in 30 Years

University of Memphis adjunct faculty could be getting their first pay raise in more than three decades. Perhaps not coincidentally, the United Campus Workers, Tennessee’s Higher Education Union, has been working to organize faculty on campuses across the state. In April 2015, adjunct faculty and...

At San Jose State Turns Out Student Attrition Has Nothing to Do With the Adjuncts

Ian E. McInness On San Jose State University’s lush inner-city campus, students in their graduation gowns pose with their families in front of ivy-covered buildings. They’re the lucky ones. Just 10.

Why Not Every Student (or Prof) Deserves a Letter of Recommendation

Jackie Jones is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Multimedia Journalism at Morgan State University’s School of Global Journalism. In her essay for the Morgan Global Journalism.

Unemployed Summer – Death of an Adjunct #1

by Monica Paige DePaul I have recently finished the last of my grading for the spring 2016 semester. The essays weren’t bad, all things considered, but I’m still drowning in anxiety for a different reason. Every summer term, I need to endure about eight weeks...

Contract Instructing in Ontario—A Personal Perspective

by Andrew Robinson I am a relative newcomer to contract instructing, having moved to Ontario from Saskatchewan in 2010, for family reasons related to health care for my younger son, who.

Poor, Priviledged and Pedantic—Why America Ignores Under-Employed Ph.D.s

by P.D. Lesko The latest NSF report, “The Survey of Earned Doctorates,” relies on data from the University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Center. The report concludes that a high percentage of newly-minted.

Do This, and Your Students Will Never Miss Class Again

by Bridgett McGowen-Hawkins Senior Digital Educator, Cengage Learning Growing up, you heard the lectures from your parents. And then you went to school and heard even more lectures. And once you arrived in college, you were just about lectured-out. However, now you teach, and you do...

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