I am sick. So, I have been doing work from bed and my desk–when I don't have a fever and chills–and catching up on my reading. Please don't laugh when I confess that I have just recently discovered the miracle that is the RSS feed...
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First off, Happy New Year to all of our readers! I am looking forward to 2008 as a pivotal year in the life of the Adjunct Advocate and our AdjunctNation.com.
Life as an adjunct, for many, is no laughing matter. However, I think it's important to keep things in perspective and to try to find the humor in situations that.
I read today in a piece published in the New York Sun that New York state officials are recommending that, "New York's public universities mine their ranks of adjunct faculty for the 2000 new full-time faculty the universities are seeking to hire by 2013." The...
I want to talk a little bit about changes that have been made recently here at Adjunct Advocate. Of course, the most important change is that the Adjunct Advocate is.
I walk my kids to school on Monday mornings. They chatter away about whatever their latest interests are, and I listen. Walking them means I get started with work a.
Over the past few days, I have been assigning content to my regular writers. That doesn't mean that I have irregular writers. It is editor-speak for those writers with whom I work on a regular basis. They get first choice of books to review, features...
I was reading the other day about the recent Canadian Council on Learning's report on post-secondary education in the Toronto Globe and Mail. It was almost too perfect that at.
I received a letter in late-November from someone wanting a copy of "Adjunct as Object: A Look At a Dozen Dissertations." It was published in the July/August 2002 issue of.
According to an article in The Ticker, Dr. Kathleen Waldron scored a $10,735 raise to bring her annual salary to $249,285. Nice. Of course, compared to University of Michigan President Dr. Mary Sue Coleman's salary of $743,151, Waldron's salary is, well, Little League. Then again,...
