One of the Caped Crusaders of adjunct activism, Mr. Joe Berry, along with his equally hard-working colleagues Beverly Stewart, and Helena Worthen, have put together a detailed booklet explaining the procedure for part-time faculty to file for unemployment between semesters. Part-time faculty who are not guaranteed...
By Randy Eldridge "Mr. Eldridge has been the best instructor that I've had since I've been here." Great, I remember thinking after reading that and several other positive comments. That.
This week Deborah Louis was kind enough to speak with us. Though she has since stepped down, Deborah was co-chair of the New Faculty Majority: The National Coalition for Adjunct.
By Nancy A. Walker, Ph.D. In my June 9, 2011 entry, I began to look at journaling as a tool in the online classroom and how journaling can help students succeed. As we continue to look at journaling from the perspective of a “tool” for use...
At the college hockey games in my town, when an opposing player is sent from the game to the penalty box, the 10,000 people in the arena wave goodbye and.
By Jenny Ortiz You're on it now, aren't you? Okay, don't admit it. I will: I'm on Twitter. Even though I checked my feed before I started this blog, I.
By Bruce A. Johnson, Ph.D., MBA When students begin a class they are assigned course materials, resources and a syllabus, along with additional information provided by their instructor. As the class progresses the amount of information that students must process increases as they are assigned additional...
By Dorinda Fox The editor of AdjunctNation.com found me through an article Salon.com published about two serious bouts with cancer and the effect of that on raising my children. In.
Recently I dipped in to the January 11, 2010 edition of the world's best magazine, I mean, The New Yorker. There I found "After the Blowup," an essay by John.
By Rich Russell In a recent column for The Chronicle of Higher Ed, Rob Jenkins highlights what we need to consider in our zealous pursuit of online education ("the third-rail in American higher education politics"), where retention rates, Jenkins notes, are just 50ish percent, yet few...
