If you haven't noticed from my past entries that I like a bit of cheekiness (well, maybe even a lot of cheekiness), then you're not reading my entries closely enough. Failure to read closely is the kind of thing that can you into serious trouble....
Part-Time Thoughts
[private]At Wilfrid Laurier University, 400 people showed up at a rally on March 22nd to support the 365 contract part-time faculty, who are on strike. Check out this piece about.
[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.
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 by what he or she teaches (Engineering pays better than English), rank (full professors earn...
The University of Liberia Faculty and Staff Associations are threatening to get tough unless paid back salaries. Part-time faculty haven't been paid their salaries for June and July. Part-timers are.
San Antonio College French Lecturer Pierre Schmitz could have used a little advice from movie mogul Sam Goldwyn. Monsieur Schmitz worked as a full-time adjunct instructor until quite recently. Well, until.
I can't help myself. It's just too tempting, and no one in the union leadership at CUNY can have my chalk holders broken. As you may remember, (or not) I have written several times about CUNY's Professional Staff Congress, an affiliate of the AFT. To...
From the January 21, 2010 edition of the San Francisco Chronicle: Finances are so dire at the University of California that it might have to turn away qualified students, but UC's regents still.
In California, higher education leaders are freaking out. Well, calmly, of course and with regal bearing and presence of mind, as Chancellors and Provosts are expected to do. Governor Ahhhnold.
I participate in a city-wide politics email listserv in the town where I live. Recently, a woman posted a detailed message about what the group should do to reach a larger audience so as to stop preaching to the choir, as it were. The last...
