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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 is at work on a piece about the latest foray into the genre of "Adj-Lit."...

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,.

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 the United States, it's another academic year of making ends meet, or not. Whatever the...

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,.

When Social Media Posts Cost Adjuncts Their Teaching Jobs

by P.D. Lesko Dr. Frank Tomasulo teaches in New York. In 2014, he was teaching two courses in the Communications Dept. at CUNY. After calling security to remove a disruptive student from the classroom, a trio of students complained to the Dept. Chair and Tomasulo was fired from his...

Of Course Tenured Faculty Are Responsible for the "Adjunct Crisis"

by P.D. Lesko On Feb. 22, 2017, Blaine Greteman, an associate professor of English at the University of Iowa, penned an essay for The Chronicle of Higher Education titled, "Don't Blame.

Barnard Adjuncts Just Showed Us All Why It’s Time for the $25K Manifesto

by P.D. Lesko By 2021, adjunct faculty teaching three-credit courses at Barnard will be paid $10,000 per course. The Barnard Contingent Faculty Union (BCF)-UAW Local 2110 was formed in 2015..

How Your Student Evals Are Killing Your Chances for a FT Job (And Better Pay)

by P.D. Lesko What are the most credible methods and evaluative tools to use when deciding whether to rehire an adjunct faculty member? This is a question that should be asked by hundreds of thousands of college administrators nationwide. Instead, what we get are lazy administrators content to have adjunct faculty evaluations...

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