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Stories From the Adjunct Professorate: Bittersweet and, Yes, Bitter
As I speak to contingent faculty from New York to Texas, Seattle to San Francisco, it becomes increasingly clear that academic penury has become the order of the day. This is occurring at a time when higher education – and some salaries…
Interview: Sherry Turkle on Technology in the College Classroom
by Jeffrey Young Sherry Turkle Says There’s a Wrong Way to Flip a Classroom. Sherry Turkle has gone from gracing the cover of Wired magazine for her boosterish views of technology, to a leading tech skeptic, worried about how our…
At OSU, 18 FT English Lecturers to Foot the Bill for a Dean’s Budget Shortfalls
Update: Shortly after this story was published, OSU officials announced that lecturers’ contracts would be honored through the end of the 2017 academic year. Here is a link to a story about the announcement. On Oct. 25, an OSU spokesman…
Why All Universities in Kenya Are Phasing Out PT Lecturers
By Ouma Wanzala The Kenyan Commission for University Education has announced that part-time lecturers will be phased out. The commission is determined to phase out part-time lecturers, saying most of them are giving substandard services to…
A Record 67 Adjuncts Win Guggenheim Fellowships
by P.D. Lesko On April 6, 2016, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation announced that, “in its ninety-second competition for the United States and Canada, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded 175 Fellowships (including…
An Interview With the Academic Twitter Star: “Sh*t Academics Say”
By Shawna Wagman Since Nathan Hall introduced the world to Shit Academics Say in 2013, his humorous Twitter account has become one of the most popular related to academia, with nearly 140,000 followers. Dr. Hall, an associate professor in…
Lecturer Uses Facebook to Expose The Poor Working Conditions of Part-Time Instructors In South…
by Jean Marie Abellana About 70,000 lecturers from several universities in South Korea are working part-time. These teachers renew their job contracts every semester. While the majority of them desire to be given a full-time status, most…
How Bloom's Toxonomy Can Make You a Better Teacher
Used with permission from A Handbook for Adjunct/Part-Time Faculty and Teacher’s of Adults, 7th ed. by Dr. Donald Grieve, Ed.D.Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives If there is a single paradigm that has stood the test of time in…
Columbia College of Chicago PTers' Union Disaffiliates from NEA & Battles College
by Deanna Isaacs In 2013, things were looking up at Columbia College. After several years of dicey relations between the administration and P-fac—the part-time faculty union that represents the majority of Columbia’s teachers—a new college…
Dutch Legislature Strengthens Temp. Faculty Contracts, Universities Thwart New Law
At universities in the Netherlands, an increasing number of university academic staff are being employed on flexible contracts, the Dutch newspaper Volkskrant reported in 2014. Over the past 17 years, the number of university staff on…
