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Appeal For Fairness For Adjunct Professor Goes To The Pope

by Jim Hightower If one obscure college professor dies, does it make any difference? If you’re Margaret Mary Vojtko, yes. Margaret Mary died last summer at age 83 — and her death has turned her name into an emotional rallying cry for adjunct college teachers...

Austin Community College Adjuncts Rally for Health Coverage

by Becky Stieber Villarreal The road to health benefits for adjuncts at Austin Community College (ACC) has been long and arduous. Since the college’s inception forty years ago, it has been plagued by its.

Satire: Dead Professor Wins Top Online Teaching Awards

by Teena Angst Freelance Writer “Clarence was such a loving and attentive partner, I never even knew he was teaching classes during his last few years,” said widow Clara Franklin..

Scientists Prove Long-Held Assumption that Elected Campus Positions Lead to Premature Arrogance Syndrome

Researchers at Winchester Tech have finally ended the ubiquitous nature/nurture debate about the onset of Premature Arrogance Syndrome (PAS) in campus elected officials. “We’ve made the mistake of considering all elected officers the same because they exhibited the same symptoms,” said Biosociologist Ron Shay. “We...

New Rules Define Workload of Part-Time College Instructors

by Nick Anderson New rules for the Affordable Care Act spell out for the first time a federal method to define the workload of part-time college instructors, but the formula will.

Campus Equity Week Is Just Around the Corner: October 28-Nov 2

by P.D. Lesko This brief history of Campus Equity Week comes from long-time adjunct activist Chris Storer: The issues of contingent academic employment in higher education are, we believe, universal..

Researchers: Poor Treatment of Adjunct Teaching Staff Leads To Improved Faculty Performance

By Abby Junckt Findings from a new study by Bodge State University reveal that mistreatment of adjunct teaching staff including verbal assault, defamation, tighter control and harassment increase job performance. The two year study ran tests on adjuncts based on age, length of service, non-peer and...

On Adjunct Activists and Bottom Feeders

by P.D. Lesko AdjunctNation will have been advocating on behalf of the nation's non-tenured faculty for 21 years this September. I am pleased and proud of the work we've done,.

MOOCs Will Probably Turn Out To Be Little More Than An Edu-tainment "Bubble"

by Peter Scott I have tried, really hard, not to write about MOOCs. But I can't keep it up forever, and what better time than the silly season to write.

Unionization Boosts Pay For Adjunct Faculty, But Adjuncts Deserve More Than a Boost

by P.D. Lesko Science, the magazine, posted this to the Careers section of its website on July 29th: For the 37% of America’s college and university teachers who are adjuncts working part-time and off the tenure track, unionization makes a difference, reports Inside Higher Ed. In the past few...

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