by Brigadier General Ed Wheeler (USA-Ret) Several years ago, I hung up my uniform at the end of a 35-year military career. Shortly afterward, I was asked to teach as an adjunct in a contemporary U.S. history course at one of our nation’s largest community...
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by Brigadier General Ed Wheeler (USA-Ret) Several years ago, I hung up my uniform at the end of a 35-year military career. Shortly afterward, I was asked to teach as.
by Shari Dinkins THIS IS GOING to be great. I’m going to choke this down in six weeks and get on with my life. All I got to do is.
by Susan Muaddi Darraj Last week, I walked into my class, ready to deliver the evening’s lesson on the differences between inductive and deductive argumentative essays. I had carefully planned for this evening, and designed an activity I was sure would help cement the students’...
by Shari Dinkins Mutual funds. Toothpaste. Liquor. Some days I pushed port; others bio. lab services. I wrote copy. I designed ads. I sat with boards of directors. I sat.
by Mark Macneill ON A MODEST annual household income of just under $100,000 Canadian ($64,000 in U.S. dollars), my young family of four was struggling to keep up with the.
by Elaina Loveland Adjuncts are more catered to than ever. Adjunctopia.com helps part-time faculty find jobs. Academic publishers Allyn & Bacon/Longman and Houghton Mifflin host Web sites exclusively for adjuncts. A cover story about an adjunct English professor was published this past summer in Washington...
by Howard Good It seems to me--granted, I’m a cranky person--that we often look in the wrong places for the right things. Want to raise student achievement? Put computers in.
by Patricia G. Selinger We need to get behind the message that science and engineering are gender-blind. At a time when information-technology companies scour the Earth in search of technical skills, fewer.
by Ronald Wolk Our institutions of higher learning have played a critical role in shaping the nation's public schools, but, unfortunately, their influence has been largely negative. Colleges and universities have pretty much gotten off scot-free as blame has been passed around for the current state of American public education,...
