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…
Part-Time Thoughts
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…
I just read a piece titled: "Adjunct union negotiations continue with tension." If only the negotiations, which have dragged on four years, could be more fun. In…
I don't need to tell those of you who're earning peanuts that you're getting the fuzzy end of the lollypop. However, the latest report by the College…
There's some great content waiting for readers this week on AdjunctNation.com. If you are a site pass holder, no doubt you've checked out the E-Zine content already.…
From The Economist: Fifty years ago, in the glorious age of three-martini lunches and all-smoking offices, America’s car companies were universally admired. Everybody wanted to know the…
by Claudia Dreifus While the news media has been riveted by this summer’s Congressional investigation of the financial practices of for-profit colleges, two important financial stories focused…
One frequently reads in the newspaper and magazine articles published about part-time faculty these days (many of which are authored by tenured or tenure-line faculty) that a…
The MLA is hurting financially. At the Philadelphia conference, the organization's leadership voted to increase dues for the first time since 1993. I'd say 16 years of…
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…
