Author: AdjunctNation Editorial Team

Avoiding Freeway Flyer Burn Out

By Jenny Ortiz Too often recently, I've been pushing aside my work load in order to simply sit still. Mornings, I find myself wondering whether I should grade papers or stare up at my ceiling? At first I thought it was the weather. Yesterday, however, I...

Still Talking About CUNY

I can't help myself. It's just too tempting, and no one in the union leadership at CUNY can have my chalk holders broken. As you may remember, (or not) I.

Seeing Us Ghosts

I've mentioned from time to time how little research has been done about the shift in the academic labor force to primarily adjunct faculty that defines us all. I've also.

An Online Class Is Only As Strong As Its Weakest Hyperlink (Sharing the Burden)

By Rich Russell (This post for for my fellow AN blogger Kat. Kat, I hope at least some of this is helpful.) The best advice I received when I first started teaching was, of course, from my mom, who taught high school herself for ten...

Starting A New Relationship (With A New Textbook)

By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. Things have been going along fairly smoothly. I've started to feel that I am (for the most part) one step ahead of the game in.

Confessions of A Snob

By Kat Kiefer-Newman Recently, I was at a fellow adjunct's house relaxing, enjoying a glass of something sweet, and talking about dining with several other colleagues. Without any warning one.

At California Colleges It's Cut, Cut, Cut For Everyone. Well, Mostly.

From the January 21, 2010 edition of the San Francisco Chronicle: Finances are so dire at the University of California that it might have to turn away qualified students, but UC's regents still found a way to reward hundreds of employees with more than $4 million in incentive...