Last week we shared the first portion of an interview with Dr. Kirk Astle, Director of College Writing at Baker College Online. This week we conclude that interview. Adjunct Advocate: How much of the composition faculty at Baker is full-time? Dr. Astle: At...
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By P.D. Lesko Jack Longmate is a renegade in the best sense of the word. He is saying out loud a long-hidden truth: in most locals, education unions have consistently neglected.
By Bruce A. Johnson, Ph.D., MBA The life of an adjunct isn’t always easy. In fact, it can be very demanding when you have facilitation duties to complete and deadlines.
I have just discovered that, well, a lot of you have been leaving me some pretty juicy comments, and the notifications of your posts did not get routed properly. The result was that, today, I approved about a Brazilian (very bad joke about President Bush's...
At the risk of beating a dead one day conference into the ground, I want to touch on some of the results of the one day conference on teaching writing.
New York's United University Professions (UUP) recently reached a tentative agreement on behalf of its members. UUP is affiliated with the New York State United Teachers and the American Federation.
By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. Recently, Central Bucks East High School English teacher Natalie Munroe made headlines and the national news with her blog. Ms. Munroe has a blog in which she wrote about, among other things, her frustrations about her students. In a nutshell,...
By Kat Kiefer-Newman From their laptops, their Blackberries, their iPhones, and now their iPads they Tweet. They Tweet in the library, the parking lot, walking along the pathways, in the.
By Lance Eaton Recently, I listened to the audiobook of Chris Anderson’s “Free: The Future of Radical Price” for free. The premise is that behind the digital revolution is the.
I am floating on a cloud today. Why? Well, for about as long as I can remember, I've thought unions that negotiate contracts that call for pay to be based on seniority as opposed to merit are single-handedly dragging down the quality of education in...
