Scholars on the tenure-track have contextual support to write and publish. In the best positions, this takes the form of course release time and internal grants to fund sabbaticals, research trips, and reflective writing. On the other hand, these positions can also carry considerable pressure, as...
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, I would have.
When I was in graduate school I was pulled towards two different realities. On one hand, the faculty encouraged scholarship. More than once I was essentially told that to be.
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 with a piece titled, "Higher Education Takes a Hit." Don't get me wrong, I think it's crucial for pieces...
I'm not sure how I feel about wordriver, but I'm glad it exists, and I'm wildly intrigued. You see, wordriver is a new (as of 2009) literary journal. Like many.
By Rich Russell As an adjunct professor, I don't always have the "privilege" of being able to choose my own textbook. If one is assigned for a course — whether.
You know how I hate just linking to someone else's writing. It's, well, so unoriginal. However, in today's edition of InsideHigherEd.com, Greg Zobel has an essay titled "The Adjuncts' Mandate." Zobel writes: "To generate change, adjuncts need to alter one basic condition. Adjuncts need to become...
One of the things that struck me when I started working on this blog was how little research had been done into the great sea change of academic labor that.
By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. I was recently writing something that required quantitative analysis. Numbers are not my strong suit. I managed to do well in math classes in school,.
By Jenny Ortiz I recently spent some time with a little game known as Dead Rising 2. In two hours I killed 543 zombies. No, no, don't applaud. This is an low number for any gamer. To be fair, I had a stack of midterms whispering to...
