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Adjunct Professor of History Wins Danville Community College Outstanding Faculty Award

Adjunct Professor of History John Kingery earned the distinction and was presented with a plaque from DCC Vice President of Academic and Student Services Debra Holley. This article is only available to subscribers. If you're a subscriber, log in. To subscribe, choose the subscription that...

Robin West Smith Wins Outstanding Adjunct Award at MCCC

by James Quick “Total shock” were the first words out of Robin West Smith’s mouth when asked about winning the Outstanding Adjunct Faculty Award. The professor of Sociology cannot believe.

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.

Brianne Bolin’s Non-Profit PrecariCorps Hopes to Provide Financial Assistance to Adjunct Faculty in Need

by Alissa Quart Brianne Bolin has taught English at Columbia College in Chicago for 10 years. She also often buys her groceries with food stamps. She is on Medicaid. Perhaps worst of all, she lives with constant uncertainty about how much work she’ll have in...

Profile in Courage: 70-Year-Old Philly Freeway Flyer Juggles Classes and Chemo

by Monica Yant Kinney Cecilia Ready lives up to her name. We’d just started talking about what it’s like to be a 70-year-old adjunct professor working through a third bout of.

Adjunct Award Winners: Fulbright Winner Off to Ireland

by Erin Zagursky An adjunct professor in William & Mary’s School of Education will travel to Ireland to conduct research and teach for a year, thanks to a U.S. Fulbright Scholar.

When the Chemistry Is Just Right: Marina Stavytska-Barba

Ameera Butt The 28-year-old explained molecules in the atmosphere are hit by light from the sun and absorb either all or some of the colors of the light spectrum. Molecules absorb the blue light — and that blue light is emitted, giving us a blue...

Adjunct Faculty Awards: Boise State Adjunct Wins 2012 NEA Fellowship

by Kim O’Brien Two professors won National Endowment for the Arts fellowships for 2012: Alan Heathcock and Mitch Wieland. In the country only 40 writers were chosen out of 1,200 applicants..

The Expat Who Took On Italy: Lecturer David Petrie Is Still Fighting

Editor: In 2002, AdjunctNation writer Michael Gerace caught up with David Petrie and interviewed him. You can read that interview here. Petrie is still fighting for equal pay and equal treatment.

Poet & Part-Time Faculty Member Lands NEA Grant

By K. Morris “I’ve always written to make sense of the world,” said National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Grant for Literature recipient Teresa Scollon. But finding time to write the poetry that reaches even beyond that to what Scollon believes to be its higher...