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Want an Easy Way to Keep in Touch With Students? Create a Course Newsletter
by Julie Candio
Do you remember what happened last Wednesday? No? Sometimes our students don't either. And I don't blame them.
While students can refer to the course syllabus, there may have been announcements mentioned during class…
The Digital Educator’s Toolkit
by Jason Cole
I want to take a moment and drill down into the digital toolkit all educators will need to understand in the coming years. As someone with a few decades of experience in this field, I hope to boil it down and reduce the…
Can You Say What Your Strategy is for Student Success?
by Jason Cole
As we explore the digital transformation of education, it’s essential to keep the why of the change in mind. I recently re-read a great article on e-literate by Mike Feldstein…
Student Op-Ed Argues Course Evals Should Ask Students About Feelings of “Acceptance, Support…
Professors are humans, and humans are prejudiced, and they definitely won’t become better if they don’t know that their words and actions are eliciting these kinds of reactions from their students. And while sometimes we feel comfortable…
Herb Childress Thinks Working Off the Tenure-Track is a Kind of Abusive Relationship
According to Childress, this addiction-abuse cycle is killing the profession. I would argue that "the profession" is just fine, thank you. The self-proclaimed core of profession which consists of administrators, tenure-line and tenured…
Essential Time Management Tips For Teaching Faculty: The Agenda
The most important time-saver that I have is the agenda; it's similar to a lesson plan. Some of my classes meet once per week, some twice, or three times per week. Thanks to my use of agendas, I have a 4-hour course, plus grading and…
How to Improve Your Student Evaluations
The very idea of student evaluations of teaching can spell terror for professors, but particularly adjunct faculty whose continued employed rests on the quality of the students' evaluations. This continues to be done despite the fact that…
Five Easy Ways to Integrate Active Learning into Your Classroom
Students learn more if they are provided with opportunities to participate actively in the learning process, whether it is group discussion, flipped assignments, in-class practice or application.
Why Wright State University PTers Should Apply for Striking FTers’ Jobs
Adjunct faculty support of or deference to full-time faculty who strike is lunacy. At Wright State University, these full-time faculty are striking because they want more money, don't like sharing more in the cost of the health care options…
Our Common Interest: Defending Higher Education and Changing the World (A Reply)
by Joseph G. Ramsey, Ph.D.
Having now re-read AdjunctNation's response to my essay "The Invisible Faculty," and having had a chance to digest a range of responses to both the AdjunctNation piece and mine, I'm prepared to offer some…
