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Adjunct Faculty Face Challenges Adjusting to Emergency Online Instruction
by Rebecca Koenig Like many others teaching college classes across the country, Sharyn Hardy spent the last few days figuring out how to translate her carefully crafted classroom lectures into lessons that her students can learn online. Yet…
Book Review: Why They Can’t Write
Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and other Necessities By: Bethany Chappel, M.Ed. Students across America sit at their desks in classrooms with teachers who have been given clear expectations about the written work that these students…
U.S. Court of Appeals: Duquesne Adjuncts Can’t Unionize
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled Jan. 28 that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has no jurisdiction over the university’s adjunct faculty. According to the ruling, the NLRB does not have the authority to…
At Clark College, Adjuncts Will Earn 65 Percent of FT Faculty Pay Rates
by Don McIntosh After 15 months of frustrating negotiations, it took just two days of striking for about 500 community college faculty to win the best union contract they’ve ever had. Members of Clark College Association for Higher…
Book Review: Going the Distance: A Handbook for Faculty Who Teach Online (Second Edition)
Reviewed by Doreen Lewis, PhD This is a review of Going the Distance: A Handbook for Faculty Who Teach Online (Second Edition) by Happy Gingras, Patricia Adams and Evelyn Beck, Copyright 2019, Part-Time Press, Inc. ISBN-13:…
Students Claim to Remember More When Reading on Screens, But Their Actual Performance Suffers
by Patricia A. Alexander and Lauren M. Singer Trakhman Today’s students see themselves as digital natives, the first generation to grow up surrounded by technology like smartphones, tablets and e-readers. Teachers, parents and policymakers…
A Chicago Classic: Membership Plummeted, Debt Skyrocketed & the PT Union Prez Paid Herself…
by P.D. Lesko
The part-time faculty union election underway at Columbia College Chicago looks more like a Windy City whodunnit than anything else, and it's a whodunnit being investigated by the U.S. Department of Labor. The part-time…
Despite Push Back From Adjunct Groups, CUNY Union Contract Ratified
CUNY’s 30,000-member staff union has ratified its contract after a lengthy contract negotiation with university officials, solidifying higher wages for both tenured faculty and adjunct professors. Members of the union, called the…
Book Review: Equality for Contingent Faculty
Edited by Keith Hoeller, Vanderbilt University Press, 2014, paperback. by Deborah Straw In Equality for Contingent Faculty, edited by Keith Hoeller, longtime academic labor activist John Hess is quoted as saying, “No contingent faculty is…
Book Review: Why Teach? In Defense of a Real Education
by Mark Edmundson. Bloomsbury, 2013. Hardcover. Review by Deborah Straw In “A Word to the New Humanities Professor,” Mark Edmundson, Professor of English, recommends the way to consider the job and the students. “He must take very…
