Hiring one-year contract and adjunct faculty members instead of tenure-track faculty will likely be among the discussion items brought before Missouri Southern State University’s Board of Governors…
Author: AdjunctNation Editorial Team
Whew! I'm exhausted. Ahem. Let me start again. Like many adjuncts, I teach for more than one school. These schools vary in their commitment to, and treatment…
Whew! After last week's despair fest, I figure my loyal readers deserve a reminder of how much adjunct writers contribute to their communities. Adjuncts at USC have…
When I was in graduate school I was pulled towards two different realities. On one hand, the faculty encouraged scholarship. More than once I was essentially told…
If you are an adjunct at a community college, you teach in a system that has come to rely increasingly on faculty off the tenure-track. At the…
I've spent a lot of time in recent posts lamenting this or that aspect of the adjunct's relationship with writing. I'd like to take a break from…
Last week I gave an overview of the issues involved in the plagiarism question. This week I'm going to share a personal narrative of one adjunct's experience…
At our house, summer is always somewhat hectic. The kids have summer camps, and I try to squeeze in time to work in between their entreaties that…
Ah, yes, time to touch on another painful topic: plagiarism. Just as mentioning tenure produces a stream of bile and frustration over one end of a broken…
Here's the question: Do full-time faculty members help students finish college? Kevin Carey, a Washington, DC think tank director, posed this question on the Chronicle's Brainstorm blog.…
