By Kat Kiefer-Newman Welcome back fellow adjuncts! I hope your holidays and break were full of fun and joy and happy times. I definitely had my share…
Author: AdjunctNation Editorial Team
By Bruce A. Johnson, Ph.D., MBA In the first entry for this series, the following question was considered: why should an instructor care what their students are thinking?…
Is it me, or are The Chronicle of Higher Education and InsideHigherEd.com looking more and more alike and covering more and more of the same news? A…
As I noted last week, many schools don't have a strong sense that adjuncts write. (Okay, that's putting it mildly…) As a result, they don't provide much…
By Erik Hanson The last Sunday before classes resume, and I could be found going over my schedules and rosters, taking a last-minute look at the syllabi,…
Which of these sentences was spoken by American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten at the recent annual conference of the National Center for the Study of…
By Ron Tinsley Fellow Adjuncts By Choice, indulge me for a moment. Sit back and think about your lives. Think about the success. Think about who you…
When I started talking to people about the entire adjuncts/writing question, the first answers I got were sort of depressing: comments about writing got lumped in with…
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…
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…