by Lee Shainen CONVENTIONAL WISDOM DICTATES that adjuncts have no power; their voices are not heard, except in the classroom. The voice of unconventional wisdom says, au contraire. Watch out now; I’m going to display a small bit of adjunct power right before your eyes. Sunglasses and...
by Bob Robinson IT’S 7:30 A.M. You polish up your term paper (actually, you fill in the blanks on the cover page of the paper you purchased on-line), copy it onto a floppy, throw.
by Diane Calabrese Moving a Mountain Transforming the Role of Contingent Faculty in Composition Studies and Higher Education Edited by Eileen E. Schell and Patricia Lambert Stock 2001–National Council of Teachers.
by Richard Lyons IN THE INCREASINGLY competitive, accountability-conscious environment of higher education, all of us are seeking cost-effective ways of improving our institutional effectiveness. Assuming your institution, division, or department employs a significant number of part-time instructors, I would encourage you to invest time at the end...
by Pamela Dillon WHEN JENNIFER AND KATHLEEN Sooy were growing up in Centerville, Ohio, they spent many hours discussing politics around the dinner table. There was much to debate: foreign affairs,.
by Evelyn Beck THOSE OF US who teach on-line courses may not be the ones who revolutionized education, but we are among those leading the way as the rest of our.
by TAA Staff ON-LINE EDUCATION HAS shifted into high gear as the Global University Alliance, a consortium of 11 universities, announced plans to offer on-line courses of its own, in addition to those its member universities offer. The consortium includes Oregon State University, George Washington University,...
by TAA Staff EVERY STUDENT HAS felt the primordial dread of a looming deadline for a term paper, the approach of final exams and the lure of an upcoming party..
by TAA Staff DESPITE 19 YEARS of widely praised work as a staff editor at Physics Today magazine, controversial author Dr. Jeff Schmidt was fired last May. The official reason?.
by TAA Staff In 1996, John Ikenberry, then a fundraiser at Pennsylvania State University, was looking for another academic post. The Chronicle of Higher Education dominated the field then, and he could find no on-line job search site devoted to positions in academe. “The only places...
