By now, mainstream media outlets have published hundreds, if not thousands of pieces about the plight of part-time faculty. On March 31st, The Nation joined the fray…
Part-Time Thoughts
First, President Obama announces to the world that he's in favor of merit pay for teachers. If you listened hard enough, you could almost hear the audible…
There are a mere 40,800 college faculty in Canada, and 50-60 percent of them work off the tenure-track. According to a piece published in the Calgary Herald,…
While reading another blog, I saw a reader comment that the lay-offs of adjunct faculty will be the best thing that could ever happen to higher education…
Out West where the buffalo roam, the antelope play and the Humvees hum down Highway 101, there's a slaughter going on. Had anyone bothered to ask me,…
Evidently, while adjuncts are busy being too busy to ever meet with their students after class, too undedicated to students and jobs to care about it, too…
I am thinking about sending a letter to President Obama. In it, I will apply to run any bank of his choosing for $400,000 per year. Since…
In the February 3rd edition of The New York Times, I read that Dr. Nancy Zimpher, president of the University of Cincinnati since 2003, is heading out east…
By nature I am somewhat competitive. Let's just say that if your token lands on Boardwalk and I have a hotel there, you're not getting a break…
by P.D. Lesko Some people I know are under the impression that pay "parity" and pay "equity" mean the same thing. They're wrong, of course. Those two…
