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A Helpful Contingent Faculty Compromise: Equal Pay for (75% of) Equal Work
We all know that contingent faculty members are underpaid, yet administrators rarely take seriously the arguments championing equal pay for equal work. It's time for a new approach.This article is only available to subscribers. If you're a…
Teaching Students How to Dissent is Part of Democracy
As a scholar in the philosophy of education, I would argue that our children, as burgeoning citizens, are entitled to such an education in our schools.This article is only available to subscribers. If you're a subscriber, log in. To…
When Race Triggers a Call to Campus Police
College campuses can be unwelcoming environments for racial minorities, including adjunct and part-time faculty of color. This article is only available to subscribers. If you're a subscriber, log in. To subscribe, choose the subscription…
Is the Current Model of College Being “Disrupted?”
by Laura Hollis A group of law students I teach were recently discussing the merits of the traditional three-year law degree program. “Why not only have two years?” one suggested, “The third year could be a practicum, or a…
Have Our Students Turned into Moral Monsters Who Hate Free Speech?
In the last few weeks, there has been a spate of columns by writers on the left condemning the left-wing college students who riot, take over university buildings, and shout down speakers they differ with.This article is only available to…
Listed Prof. Says: "Professor Watchlist Gets an F for Accuracy"
If the Professor Watchlist were a research paper, I'd give it an F. Much of the information about me on the Watchlist is simply untrue. This article is only available to subscribers. If you're a subscriber, log in. To subscribe, choose the…
Could President Trump’s Extremist Education Agenda Impact College Faculty?
Not a single source I can find anticipated Trump would look for education expertise in the deep, dark well he repeatedly seems to draw from: the extremist, right-wing evangelical community.This article is only available to subscribers. If…
The Academic Circle of Life & Excellent Usage of Commas
by Laura Yeager There is a great circle of life that occurs at the university. Years ago, when I was in graduate school at Iowa State University, I was studying with Jane Smiley. I had won a fellowship (The Pearl Hogrefe Creative Writing…
All the World’s a Stage and Adjuncts, Merely Voters on It
by Alissa Montalbano Flustered by official analysis and ad nauseam personal opinions of politics spewed about using purported facts, and even, god forbid, math, we English Majors usually sit by the sidelines and watch elections unfold with…
Call Me Adjunct
While all higher educational institutions resemble each other on the surface, each one is bizarre in its own unique way. Universities, for example, make a big production of registering us, completing stacks of paperwork, background checks,…