As I've written before, one of the most enjoyable aspects of my job is working on our web site. It pleases me no end to provide a much-used resource for the nation's 700,000 faculty off the tenure-track. In March, we served up about 3 million...
Blogs
By now, mainstream media outlets have published hundreds, if not thousands of pieces about the plight of part-time faculty. On March 31st, The Nation joined the fray with a piece.
Anyone who thinks—or worse still writes— that part-time and adjunct faculty aren't committed to their jobs and their students should read about Michael Powelson. This man, who teaches at California.
First, President Obama announces to the world that he's in favor of merit pay for teachers. If you listened hard enough, you could almost hear the audible gasps from Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers, and Dennis van Roekel, President of the...
There are a mere 40,800 college faculty in Canada, and 50-60 percent of them work off the tenure-track. According to a piece published in the Calgary Herald, the overuse of.
January was a little scary...ok...a lot scary. We watched, more than slightly terrified, as sales dropped and dropped and, well, you get the picture. February, normally a slow month for.
While reading another blog, I saw a reader comment that the lay-offs of adjunct faculty will be the best thing that could ever happen to higher education in a long time. He then falls right into the old myth that most adjuncts are under-employed Ph.D.s...
Out West where the buffalo roam, the antelope play and the Humvees hum down Highway 101, there's a slaughter going on. Had anyone bothered to ask me, I would have.
Just a quick entry to let folks know that I am blogging about part-time faculty at The Chronicle of Higher Education. Click here to read my February 26, 2009 entry..
They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. I suppose. Sometimes, it's annoying. However, I try to be good-natured and remember that as a publisher I have led the way for the past 18 years on the coverage of issues of importance to...
