By P.D. Lesko Last week, we launched our Facebook page and linked all of our Nation Blogs to Twitter. Whew! It's fun to watch the number of…
The New Adjunct
By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. I was so excited to accept the position as an adjunct where I am currently teaching that I was honestly willing to teach any…
By Erik Hanson I had thought to title this entry as “Don’t Make Me Angry; You Wouldn’t Like Me When I’m Angry,” but that phrase probably has…
By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. Everyone, at some point or another, needs a deadline extension. Most schools have established late policies and each professor is then generally…
By Erik Hanson The title of this post reminds me of Jon Lovitz’s “The Annoying Man” character from back in his Saturday Night Live days who would…
By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. Staying up late to organize binders, notebooks, and supplies – check. Reading and re-reading my students’ names to try to pronounce correctly…
By Erik Hanson I am sometimes plagued by an irrational fear for my job. Perhaps an explanation through analogy is in order. I grew up on a…
After working for twenty-five years in the financial services industry I started on my quest to change careers and entered into the teaching field during the fall…
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…
“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…
