Books

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 the most useful parts of the book, and one for which you’ll want your highlighter, are the steps…

The book uses bullet points, lists, infographics, and is organized beautifully. It is a pleasure to read, and it can be read in one sitting. The author uses the latest research to support many of the theories he espouses. I was impressed…

Readers of Sexism Ed, published two decades later, may feel that there’s been little to no progress since the 1990s regarding gender equity, diversity, and inclusion. However, while Baker’s book provides a good overview of today’s problems,…

In “Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America,” Alissa Quart lucidly recounts these and other wrenching stories of economic hardship, while meticulously deconstructing some of the prevailing myths about middle-class life in the United…

My Word! is written in  a scholarly style. Blum also uses personal examples from her teaching background. Chapters are best read individually, with time spent between them to ponder the concepts or look at some of her references. The book…

Gypsy Scholars, Migrant Teachers and the Global Academic Proletariat: Adjunct Labour in Higher Education,  a collection of fourteen essays by male and female adjuncts in the U.S. and in other countries, is extremely diverse in subject…

This book should make any adjunct laugh or cry or maybe prepare to consider other work. Perhaps it will inspire more adjuncts to take part in the growing number of unions and try to become more included in their college’s or university’s…

This handbook would be especially relevant for new faculty, adjunct or full-time, as it includes tools that some professors might never have thought of or dared to try. The language is lively and enthusiastic, not too laden with academic…

The Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy by Maggie Berg and Barbara Seeber (University of Toronto Press, 2016; $26.95) Reviewed by Christina Turner Symbols of the neoliberal university in Canada are so common…

The share of Americans who report not reading any books in the past 12 months is largely unchanged since 2012, but is slightly higher than in 2011, when the Center first began conducting surveys of book-reading habits. That year, 19 percent…