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 on non-profit colleges and universities have been making headlines as well. In July, The Chronicle of Higher Education...
Part-Time Thoughts
In the February 3rd edition of The New York Times, I read that Dr. Nancy Zimpher, president of the University of Cincinnati since 2003, is heading out east to head the.
The AFT recently came out with a new study that concludes part-time faculty are teaching a majority of the courses offered at public colleges and universities in the U.S. I.
[private]People are always ready to give advice. The truth is that giving advice is never as easy as it seems. I am willing to bet that somewhere in the mapping of the human DNA is the "advice gene." People who give bad advice have, maybe,...
Did pigs just fly overhead? Is hell freezing over? Check out this post from the Law Librarian blog: AAUP Calls for Placing Adjunct Faculty on Tenure Track In Conversion of Appointments.
From the Toronto Globe and Mail. There’s lots of evidence that, in general, good looking people earn higher salaries. But why would hotness pay in academia? A professor’s salary is largely determined.
One of the Caped Crusaders of adjunct activism, Mr. Joe Berry, along with his equally hard-working colleagues Beverly Stewart, and Helena Worthen, have put together a detailed booklet explaining the procedure for part-time faculty to file for unemployment between semesters. Part-time faculty who are not...
At the college hockey games in my town, when an opposing player is sent from the game to the penalty box, the 10,000 people in the arena wave goodbye and.
Tyler Junior College in East Texas serves 12,000 students. According to the JC's web site, 250 of its 456 faculty are full-time. For some odd reason, the part-time faculty are.
Tyler Junior College in East Texas serves 12,000 students. According to the JC's web site, 250 of its 456 faculty are full-time. For some odd reason, the part-time faculty are getting a pay raise this year. I say for some odd reason, because the part-time...
