by Debra Leigh Scott I was appalled to read The Chronicle article about the AAUP “plan” to provide “Better Pay, Job Stability, and a Career Path for Contingent Faculty”…
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By Elayne Clift Is there any hope for college adjuncts? It was never my intention to teach when I was in the throes of my career as…
Official statistics can tell you how many workers were jobless last month, how many had college degrees and how many worked in construction. But they cannot tell…
Sometimes our cousins on the other side of the Atlantic ask the questions that the American higher education media don't ask. The Guardian is one of England's…
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…
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…
According to an editorial in the paper Haaretz, a nationwide strike by 4500 senior faculty has entered its seventh week. As faculty are wont to do, the…
Can the Stupidity Police please visit Calvin Butts and put him under the hot lights for a bit?!? Calvin O. Butts III, president of SUNY Old Westbury,…
I bet you know that politicos in California and New York are cutting higher education. Five will get you ten you haven't heard as much about the…
Out West where the buffalo roam, the antelope play and the Humvees hum down Highway 101, there's a slaughter going on. Had anyone bothered to ask me,…