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…
Books
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…
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…
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…
Book Review: Bully in the Ivory Tower, How Aggression and Incivility Erode American Higher Education
by Dr. Leah Hollis, Ed.D, Patricia Berkly L.L.C., 2012. Review by Deborah Straw As an adjunct teacher at several colleges, I have been bullied more than a…
Edited by Jessica Loudis, Bosko Blagojevic, John Arthur Peetz, and Allison Rodman. Bloomsbury USA. 2014. Review by Deborah Straw Should I Go to Grad School? is a…
Book Review: The Academic Portfolio A Practical Guide to Documenting Teaching, Research, and Service
An academic portfolio makes sense particularly for adjunct instructors, and I am so glad I found this resource. The book definitely speaks to the adjunct audience, but…
Put on your seatbelt when you decide to sit down and read, Confessions of a Teacher Or, How to Be a Part-Timer, by Mary Allen Redd. You’re…
Chapter 6 reminds the reader about the memory process and how easy it is for students to forget what they just learned as they carry on in…
The Professor Is In first focuses on the ways in which landing a full-time job at a college or university have changed over the years. One of…
