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Colleges Are Freezing Hiring for Tenure-Track Faculty. Adjuncts Can’t Let This Crisis Go to Waste.

by P.D. Lesko College administrators are re-calculating their six-, seven-, eight-, nine- and ten-figure budgets, and battening down the golden hatches on their mega-yachts. There are rumblings and evidence of a system-wide hiring freeze for tenure-line faculty, the most expensive instructional items on any college's...

Higher Education Is Not Under Attack; It’s Drowning In Greed, Hypocrisy and Arrogance

by P.D. Lesko On January 12, 2020 Robert Reich (@RBReich) Tweeted this observation: "American capitalism in a nutshell: The same day it was announced that Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg will.

How Campus Equity Week Has Sabotaged Equal Pay for Adjuncts

by P.D. Lesko Last week was Campus Equity Week (CEW), in case you didn't know. From October 21-25, adjunct faculty and their allies were encouraged to use a variety of.

Colleges Need $18.9 Billion Annually to Provide “Minimally Good” FT Jobs to 263K Adjuncts. Here’s A Plan to Find the Cash.

by P.D. Lesko In 2016, researchers Jason Brennan and Phillip Magness published "Estimating the Cost of Justice for Adjuncts: A Case Study in University Business Ethics." In their article, the two men offered up some math. According to the authors, across academe colleges currently employ...

Herb Childress Thinks Working Off the Tenure-Track is a Kind of Abusive Relationship

by P.D. Lesko Our book reviewer has a copy of Herb Childress's recently published book, The Adjunct Underclass: How America’s Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission and.

Why Wright State University PTers Should Apply for Striking FTers’ Jobs

by P.D. Lesko The full-time faculty at Wright State University went on strike on Tuesday January 22nd. Adjunct faculty employed by WSU who seek full-time teaching jobs should contact the deans.

Why FT Faculty Will Never Speak Out for PT Faculty

by P.D. Lesko "I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice."—Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian activist, feminist, physician The plea du jour to address the two-tier labor system within higher education is...

Science May Have Found a Cure for the “Adjunct Syndrome”

by P.D. Lesko It's the Holiday Season. The Season of Joy. The Season of Caring. The Season of Giving. For non-tenured faculty from Australia to England and from Canada to.

Venting About Students on Twitter May Be Re-Wiring Your Brain (and Not in a Good Way)

by P.D. Lesko On Twitter, the witty professors are out in force. There are "sarcastic" professors, "burned out" professors, "bitter" professors, professors of "sarcasm," "angry" professors, "snarky" professors, "jaded" professors.

Why Being a Hard-Ass Prof is Bad for You and Your Students

by P.D. Lesko I was the kind of faculty member who believed that students rise to meet the high opinion a faculty member has of them. More often than not, my students rose to the challenge of having a teacher who approached our working relationship...

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