By Kat Kiefer-Newman Welcome back fellow adjuncts! I hope your holidays and break were full of fun and joy and happy times. I definitely had my share of those things, and more than a little luck to guide me as I finished my dissertation edits...
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By Bruce A. Johnson, Ph.D., MBA In the first entry for this series, the following question was considered: why should an instructor care what their students are thinking? The answer to.
Is it me, or are The Chronicle of Higher Education and InsideHigherEd.com looking more and more alike and covering more and more of the same news? A quick check today.
As I noted last week, many schools don't have a strong sense that adjuncts write. (Okay, that's putting it mildly…) As a result, they don't provide much funding for conference attendance. Actually, that too is putting it mildly. Many schools provide no funds at all...
By Erik Hanson The last Sunday before classes resume, and I could be found going over my schedules and rosters, taking a last-minute look at the syllabi, and shuffling necessary.
Which of these sentences was spoken by American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten at the recent annual conference of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining? See.
By Ron Tinsley Fellow Adjuncts By Choice, indulge me for a moment. Sit back and think about your lives. Think about the success. Think about who you have become. Now, flashback to 10th grade! Think about what was important to you at that time. How...
When I started talking to people about the entire adjuncts/writing question, the first answers I got were sort of depressing: comments about writing got lumped in with general complaints about.
By Jenny Ortiz As a Freeway Flyer, the end of semester always comes with a mountain of paperwork and the hope that my contract is renewed for another term. Given.
I have just started reading Dr. Mark Bousquet's book How The University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation. I found Cary Nelson's introduction slightly out of touch with reality. Dr. Nelson, a self-professed "tenured radical," and President of the AAUP, has long spoken out...
