Philip Patterson drove more than two hours to support the Union of Teaching Faculty of Central Michigan University. Patterson, an Ypsilanti senior from Eastern Michigan University, is heavily involved with Students for an Ethical and Participatory Education and the Adjunct Lecturers Organizing Committee. The two...
Author: AdjunctNation Editorial Team
University of Michigan lecturers rallied in late-April to protest the non-reappointment of one of the Lecturers Employment Organization’s top officials, a move some lecturers are calling retaliation against the union..
by Kevin Carey College is the most complicated expensive purchase most people ever make. Houses are relatively easy—you can walk through ahead of time and hire an inspector to check.
Offices are important. An office is the college instructor's home away from home; in fact, the instructor often spends more time at the office than at home. Offices can indicate the status of the owner, in terms of size, location, windows, and amenities. The adjunct...
by Kat Kiefer-Newman It was bound to happen in one of my classes. I knew that sooner or later I would be confronted by the fanatical devotion fans have for.
Obviously, I'm not a person who likes to say "no" or I wouldn't be teaching for four colleges in four Michigan counties this semester. And no, this is not the.
My first experience with online learning was in July 2003 as a student. This was before the emergence of online social networking as we know it today. We were not Linked In and we were not finding all of our long-lost classmates and cousins on...
This past week, there was an article in InsideHigherEd about a professor who found herself yanked from her biology classroom at Louisiana State University after students complained about her exams.
Over the years I have given a great deal of thought to grading, incentives, and fairness. One anecdote will illustrate what started me on the road to thinking about how.
As I've said before, critical thinking is important, but if the students can't figure out how to put their ideas down on the page in a readable way, then no one will care if they thought critically. Even if I explain all of this to...
