by P.D. Lesko John C. Cross and Edie Goldenberg have a new book out about adjuncts. Their book is titled The Ominous Rise of Adjuncts, and the authors have thrown a monkey into the wrench that is the debate concerning both the rise in the...
Part-Time Thoughts
Is it me, or are The Chronicle of Higher Education and InsideHigherEd.com looking more and more alike and covering more and more of the same news? A quick check today.
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 Collective Bargaining? See.
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 touch with reality. Dr. Nelson, a self-professed "tenured radical," and President of the AAUP, has long spoken out...
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 the article, Pace's.
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 Board on the.
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. My favorite piece from the "Features" section is by Kelly Lavis, "In Search of Service: Opportunities to Shine...
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 secrets of their.
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.
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 major problem with the use of part-time faculty is their lack of commitment to the institutions at which...