This week Deborah Louis was kind enough to speak with us. Though she has since stepped down, Deborah was co-chair of the New Faculty Majority: The National Coalition for Adjunct Equity. Since the NFM engages numerous issues related to adjunct faculty and writing, and since...
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Clayton M. Christensen is primarily known for his work on innovation. His books The Innovator's Dilemma and The Innovator's Solution are required reading for business innovators (and in many classes),.
by P.D. Lesko I have been writing about FACE for the past few weeks. I have been thinking about FACE since I first heard that American Federation of Teachers officials.
By Rich Russell I was setting up small group workshops in my online Creative Writing I class last week. Blackboard makes it so easy to do this: In the "Teach" tab, go to "Create Groups" and then "Create Multiple Groups" and "Randomly Distribute Students" into...
By Bruce A. Johnson, Ph.D., MBA As an adjunct you are often spending a significant amount of time developing feedback for your students, especially for their written assignments. The developmental.
By Dorinda Fox I am spoiled rotten by living in Florida, because I originally wrote this while eating a cheap prime rib lunch in a restaurant on the Flagler Beach.
In between these actual posts about writing and adjuncts, the subject is always simmering in the back of my mind. What is the relationship? What should the relationship be? How does one affect the other? What is the place of tenure in this equation? Some...
I read a blog posting by a snappish prof. who said he hated the term "contingent" faculty. So, I went to the dictionary to see what I could see. Here.
Let me start with a few minor updates: On the plus side, I've got some interesting interviews coming up. On the negative/absent side, I still haven't heard back from many.
By Kat Kiefer-Newman I know that I've complained before about Bb9 (it was frustrating, to say the least, when it first came online). I didn't even know then what I will euphemistically call the challenges I would be dealing with now. Today, I sit here...
