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 I come out and play with them. We live in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It's a wonderful town in...
Author: AdjunctNation Editorial Team
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 system, so does.
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. He tells the.
As the Internet has flooded its way through every aspect of contemporary life, it has changed many things. One of the things net champions claim as a victory is the proliferation of blogs. According to Technorati's "State of the Blogosphere 2008" (http://technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere/), at that time...
Over at the OK Corral that is The Chronicle of Higher Education, they've printed a commentary by adjunct Deborah Lewis. Lewis offers several solutions to improve the pay, performance and.
A few weeks ago I commented on how some of the major academic organizations (Modern Language Association [MLA], National Council of Teachers of English [NCTE]) supported adjunct attendance at their.
At the University of South Carolina, president Harris Pastides has a $39 million dollar budget deficit. That sounds horrifying to those of us with $39 dollars in our savings accounts. However, It's exactly 4.5 percent of the $866 million dollar 2008-2009 budget for Pastides's university...
At the moment, I'm in air-conditioned comfort at the Austin Convention Center. We're displaying at the NISOD conference. If you've not heard of NISOD (National Institute for Staff and Organizational.
Let's be honest; Pope Benedict XVI has little charisma. Whereas John Paul II was the Frank Sinatra of the Vatican, Pope Benedict is more the Joey Bishop of the Papal.
NBC recently announced its Fall line-up includes a show titled "Community." As NBC execs. describe it, the comedy is about a group of quirky "losers" at fictional Greendale Community College. The four minute promo video will give you a good sense of just what "Community"...
