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Herb Childress Thinks Working Off the Tenure-Track is a Kind of Abusive Relationship
According to Childress, this addiction-abuse cycle is killing the profession. I would argue that "the profession" is just fine, thank you. The self-proclaimed core of profession which consists of administrators, tenure-line and tenured…
Essential Time Management Tips For Teaching Faculty: The Agenda
The most important time-saver that I have is the agenda; it's similar to a lesson plan. Some of my classes meet once per week, some twice, or three times per week. Thanks to my use of agendas, I have a 4-hour course, plus grading and…
How to Improve Your Student Evaluations
The very idea of student evaluations of teaching can spell terror for professors, but particularly adjunct faculty whose continued employed rests on the quality of the students' evaluations. This continues to be done despite the fact that…
Five Easy Ways to Integrate Active Learning into Your Classroom
Students learn more if they are provided with opportunities to participate actively in the learning process, whether it is group discussion, flipped assignments, in-class practice or application.
Why Wright State University PTers Should Apply for Striking FTers’ Jobs
Adjunct faculty support of or deference to full-time faculty who strike is lunacy. At Wright State University, these full-time faculty are striking because they want more money, don't like sharing more in the cost of the health care options…
Our Common Interest: Defending Higher Education and Changing the World (A Reply)
by Joseph G. Ramsey, Ph.D.
Having now re-read AdjunctNation's response to my essay "The Invisible Faculty,"Â and having had a chance to digest a range of responses to both the AdjunctNation piece and mine, I'm prepared to offer some…
Why FT Faculty Will Never Speak Out for PT Faculty
The plea du jour to tenured and tenure-line college faculty is to "stand up" for adjunct and part-time teaching faculty. The argument is that in doing so those full-time faculty will benefit. This is yet another wild pitch in the dirt from…
Why The Poor Working Conditions For Part-timers Should Matter to Full-timers
But while the working conditions of these sessional instructors is a central problem to be tackled at universities, many full-time professors are also awakening to the rising difficulties associated with their job. In fact, the ‘sessional…
Science May Have Found a Cure for the “Adjunct Syndrome”
The challenges, struggles, poor pay and non-existent institutional support continue to crush the life out of hundreds of thousands of non-tenured faculty. Will the general public ever care? I don't think so. While mainstream media continue…
There Is No Such Thing As An Adjunct Professor
The reason I’m sharing this is not because I want sympathy – far from it. I’m sharing this because I know that there are at least 1.3 million professors across the United States working on contingent contracts, many who may well be…