The New Adjunct

Tips for Helping (You and) Your Students Identify and Overcome the Discomfort of New Beginnings in the Classroom

by Kate Whalen COVID-19 catapulted our society on a mass scale into the online environment, and often we weren’t prepared. Many of us were forced to equip ourselves with new skills and tackle new challenges. For instance, beyond changing how we worked, some of us also...

The Midwestern Black Professor Teaching MAGA Babies Is Not All Right

“My adjunct teaching job wound up being a lot more than I bargained for.” by Jonita Davis My job in 2017 was to teach Composition I to new college students,.

teaching college is hard as shit, and students are afraid to be creative.

by Ama McKinley I’m a first semester instructor this fall, guiding 106 students as they learn Human Communication and Graphic Design. Sometimes, this job still feels like i’m being punked. When I was.

Essential Time Management Tips For Teaching Faculty: The Agenda

by Elizabeth Kuehne After almost two decades as an adjunct, I’ve learned a thing or two about time management. When I first began teaching, I was able to get by with one bag and a canned curriculum from the technological Institute where I taught. Before...

An Adjunct Professor Confesses…

by John Brown [Imaginary dialogue based on Catholic confessions I willingly endured during my Catholic adolescence in the 1960s; doubtless the format/questions/vocabulary have much changed since that epoch.] Georgetown adjunct.

Adjunct Instructors’ Outlook on Full-Time Employment

by Tami Strang If you’ve been following education news lately, you’ve probably read at least one article that discusses the struggles that many adjunct instructors are having as they seek full-time.

Back to School

By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. Ask, and you shall receive! Awhile back I wrote a blog about my desire to become a student again. Oh, how I missed the back-to-school feeling, the excitement of the new syllabus and mapping out the course assignments. Well, fate...

Newsflash to the Older Women of the Local College: “You’re a Very Tangible Part of the Problem.”

by Sandra Keifer I can say this because I’m one of you. Here is a newsflash to the older women of the local college adjunct faculty—you who are supported by.

Questionable Professionalism & New Adjuncts — Drawing the Line

By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. True headline: "Campus Shock: Michigan Professor Actually Takes Nude Pictures...With Student." Wow. Just wow. Seriously? Where do I begin? When you first read that headline, since.

Are Your Students Prepared For College When They Get To Class?

By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. Are your students prepared for your class when they walk through your door? I read an interesting article about the preparedness (or lack thereof) of many college students for what awaits them in higher education. The New York Times article...