I have mentioned in a past blog the amount of time I spend writing and answering email on an average day (one hour for four or five email accounts) and what a great tool it is for freeway flyers. Messages from the colleges for whom...
Freeway Flyer
Last June, the adjuncts and contingent faculty at Western Michigan University voted almost without dissent (207- 29) to ratify a contract for a new part-time instructor faculty union, the Professional.
Let us say that you are an adjunct instructor with a Master's degree in your content area and several years of pertinent teaching experience; however, the current job market has.
There is often no such thing as the traditional summer off for adjunct instructors who are paid per class. Many adjuncts who need income during the summer need to line up as many summer classes as they can get. This can be a challenge, because...
This is it. This is the summer you will brush up on your teaching skills or your organization techniques. You know it will make your life easier and will improve.
The old, dirty flatbed truck two vehicles ahead if me is loaded down with assorted shopping carts. Had I noticed, I would have gotten in the other lane; now, it's.
Offices are important. An office is the college instructor's home away from home; in fact, the instructor often spends more time at the office than at home. Offices can indicate the status of the owner, in terms of size, location, windows, and amenities. The adjunct...
Obviously, I'm not a person who likes to say "no" or I wouldn't be teaching for four colleges in four Michigan counties this semester. And no, this is not the.
The fact that there is a primetime TV show about community colleges is another sign that these institutions are now part of our mainstream life and popular culture. In a.
Piss Poor Prof, also known as Burnt-Out Adjunct, describes the adjunct as being "the academic equivalent of a fry cook." http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2009/06/15/adjunct Then there is Dr. Burton Fletcher, who calls adjuncts "the burros of academia." http://www.cpfa.org/burro.html. In a world where adjunct instructors have become the Rodney Dangerfield of...
