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...
Negotiating the Paradox: Adjuncts & Writing
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...
In his recent (2009) book Designing the Smart Organization author Roland Deiser primarily focuses on learning in the corporate environment. In fact, one of his starting points is the claim that.
This week I'd like to touch on a two surveys related to adjuncts (and writing). The first is a recent survey done by The Chronicle of Higher Education. It's dated.
This week I thought I'd shift gears a bit. Assuming that the folks who read this blog write, or want to write, I thought I'd share a bit on writing productively…and what it means for an adjunct. Assume that you have established a solid mastery...
