News For the Adjunct Faculty Nation

The New Adjunct: Rate Your Professor – It's All About Perspective

By Kathy McBrayer, M.Ed., SPHR I am at a unique time in my career as an adjunct professor. Not only am I a new adjunct professor, but I am also the mother of a new college student; my son will be a freshman in the fall. This situation provides a...

Adjunct By Choice: From Adjunct to Full-Time? Maybe. Or Not.

By Randy Eldridge If any of you have read any of my previous blogs, you're familiar with Dr. Abbott. He's my department chair and a great guy. In fact, he's.

Interview With Dr. Kirk Astle (Part II)

Last week we shared the first portion of an interview with Dr. Kirk Astle, Director of College Writing at Baker College Online. This week we conclude that interview. Adjunct.

Having So Many Contingent Faculty Diminishes the Overall Quality of Teaching and Learning

Before you huff and puff at me, I want to say that it the title of this piece comes from the Executive Director of the Modern Language Association, Rosemary Feal, and not me. She said it to a reporter from the New York Times who wrote...

Write On! An Interview With Dana S. Dunn

This week we're shifting focus a bit. Dana S. Dunn is Professor of Psychology at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Moravian is a small and selective liberal arts college with.

Tradition! "Junior Faculty" Keep Higher Ed. in Israel Afloat

According to an editorial in the paper Haaretz, a nationwide strike by 4500 senior faculty has entered its seventh week. As faculty are wont to do, the senior lecturers want.

Two Writers, One Adjunct, Two Lessons, One Lesson?

I received a brief and surprising email today. The first surprise was that the email arrived at all. You see, I'd emailed Elizabeth Strout, whose complex and often lovely novel in stories Olive Kitteridge. (If you haven't read Olive Kitteridge, I highly suggest it. There's a...

Beevis and Calvin O. Butts (head) III

Can the Stupidity Police please visit Calvin Butts and put him under the hot lights for a bit?!? Calvin O. Butts III, president of SUNY Old Westbury, was quoted in.

A First Look at Lore and Bits

Part of what I've been doing in this blog is noodling around the questions of how adjunct writers' circumstances affect their writing (and writing teaching), and, by implication, to what.

UNLV Deals Out NTT Faculty

I bet you know that politicos in California and New York are cutting higher education. Five will get you ten you haven't heard as much about the cuts in Nevada. At the University of Nevada Las Vegas, the state's budget crisis has hit the journalism department....

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