The New Adjunct

Do New Adjuncts Have "Sucker" Written Across Our Foreheads?

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 allowed to accept late work and deduct late points at their discretion. I think this flexibility is a...

Getting “Known” (and NOT in the Infamous Sense of the Word)

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 yell out, “Get.

Jitters. Butterflies. Nerves.

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 and memorize –.

Confessions of a Phobic (or Better Yet, a Realist)

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 farm almost ten miles north of my hometown. During that time, I'd sometimes find myself plunked down on...

I Am Born A New Adjunct

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 of 2008. I.