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 titled, "Higher Education Takes a Hit." Don't get me wrong, I think it's crucial for...
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I'm not sure how I feel about wordriver, but I'm glad it exists, and I'm wildly intrigued. You see, wordriver is a new (as of 2009) literary journal. Like many.
By Rich Russell As an adjunct professor, I don't always have the "privilege" of being able to choose my own textbook. If one is assigned for a course — whether.
You know how I hate just linking to someone else's writing. It's, well, so unoriginal. However, in today's edition of InsideHigherEd.com, Greg Zobel has an essay titled "The Adjuncts' Mandate." Zobel writes: "To generate change, adjuncts need to alter one basic condition. Adjuncts need to...
One of the things that struck me when I started working on this blog was how little research had been done into the great sea change of academic labor that.
By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. I was recently writing something that required quantitative analysis. Numbers are not my strong suit. I managed to do well in math classes in school,.
By Jenny Ortiz I recently spent some time with a little game known as Dead Rising 2. In two hours I killed 543 zombies. No, no, don't applaud. This is an low number for any gamer. To be fair, I had a stack of midterms whispering...
By Jenny Ortiz I recently spent some time with a little game known as Dead Rising 2. In two hours I killed 543 zombies. No, no, don't applaud. This is an.
By P.D. Lesko When I taught, there was always the inevitable end of the year scramble to see who would get summer teaching work. It was brutal. Feelings were always.
NYSUT, an AFT/NEA affiliate, organized the 1,000 part-time faculty at Pace University in 2004. I wrote about Pace's adjunct faculty union and its trials and tribulations here. The bottom line is that it took almost five years between when the union was certified and when...
