Before you huff and puff at me, I want to say that it the title of this piece comes from the Executive Director of the Modern Language…
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On the front page of the AdjunctNation.com site, there is a feature called The Daily Excuse. AdjunctNation.com Family members can log in and leave their best student…
College administrators rend their garments and wail about student retention. Turns out, though, fretting over student retention is much like fretting about fried food: No matter the…
The session presentation was titled “Optimizing the Use of Part-Time Faculty.” Titles like this make me queasy, because “optimizing” people generally goes well for those doing the…
This week I'd like to touch on a two surveys related to adjuncts (and writing). The first is a recent survey done by The Chronicle of Higher…
by P.D. Lesko Eliza Doolittle sputters in response to yet another petty humiliation: "Just you wait, Henry Higgins!" As the saying goes, revenge is a dish best…
This week I thought I'd shift gears a bit. Assuming that the folks who read this blog write, or want to write, I thought I'd share a…
[private]This week I had the opportunity to talk with one of the stars of science writing, Marcia Bartusiak. When she won the AIP Science Writing Award in 1982,…
In September, there were pieces in The Chronicle (http://chronicle.com/article/An-Activist-Adjunct-Shoulde/48348/) and on InsideHigherEd.com (http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2009/09/10/maisto) about the New Faculty Majority. September, it seems, is the time of year when…
Whew! I'm exhausted. Ahem. Let me start again. Like many adjuncts, I teach for more than one school. These schools vary in their commitment to, and treatment…
