When I started talking to people about the entire adjuncts/writing question, the first answers I got were sort of depressing: comments about writing got lumped in with general complaints about the overall state of affairs for adjuncts, which means comments on writing got lumped in...
Negotiating the Paradox: Adjuncts & Writing
One of the things that struck me when I started working on this blog was how little research had been done into the great sea change of academic labor that.
This week we've got a rare perspective on the question of adjuncts and writing: a brief interview with a university president who is also a former adjunct. Alan Walker is.
I've avoided opening the discussion about how adjuncts can earn tenure because opening the tenure discussion often seems like opening a wound that never heals. It is actually easier to ask adjunct faculty members about what they earn and get straight answers than it is...
Whew! Sorry about being out of breath. I'm rushing to get this done (and as my editor will testify, I'm already a few days late). You see, I was stuck.
So…I've been blogging on adjuncts and writing for a year now, and as I start my second year, I want to look back over what I've seen, what I've learned,.
My recent posts have ranged over publications and interviews; it seems time to bring this back to me for an embarrassing confession: the common criticisms of adjunct faculty are becoming true about me. That is to say, I've heard it said/seen it written that adjuncts...
I recently wrote about wordriver (and my ambivalence regarding it). This week I'd like to touch on a markedly different publication, Kairos. Kairos is subtitled "A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology,.
Recently I dipped in to the January 11, 2010 edition of the world's best magazine, I mean, The New Yorker. There I found "After the Blowup," an essay by John.
A lot of us laboring in the academic salt mines of adjunctdom tend to just keep grinding on, either content with our lot or hoping things will improve on their own. The identity of teacher/professor can be almost hermetically sealed, or close enough that we...