Mark Miller is the President of the part-time faculty union at Allan Hancock College, in California. I recently read a piece he wrote titled "In Defense of Unions," about talking.
Listen to my blog entry here. Just a couple of hours after posting my blog piece that mentions selling Adjunct Advocate, over at the American Federation of Teachers Craig Smith.
If you haven't noticed from my past entries that I like a bit of cheekiness (well, maybe even a lot of cheekiness), then you're not reading my entries closely enough..
Congratulations to the adjunct faculty at NYU who won Outstanding Teaching Awards last week. The Outstanding Teaching Award is a sub-category of NYU's "Golden Dozen," competition. The Golden Dozen awards.
In this blog entry, I posited that, perhaps, the new part-time faculty union at Wayne State would have a tougher time than leaders expected to negotiate a new contract with.
Review of Teaching the Large College Class: A Guidebook for Instructors with Multitudes by Frank Heppner Jossey-Bass, October 2007. Paperback, $33.00. Reviewed by Greg Beatty Teaching the Large College Class.
