Colleges Are Freezing Hiring for Tenure-Track Faculty. Adjuncts Can’t Let This Crisis Go to…
by P.D. Lesko
College administrators are re-calculating their six-, seven-, eight-, nine- and ten-figure budgets, and battening down the golden hatches on their mega-yachts. There are rumblings and evidence of a system-wide hiring…
Not All Online Students Are Lonely (and We Can’t Give up on Those Who Are)
Rather than dismissing the loneliness of online learning as inevitable, we need to work collectively across academia to continually improve student experiences for everyone. by Robert Furtado When I worked as a professor teaching media…
Why Hip-Hop Belongs in Today’s Classrooms
Hip-hop officially became the most popular music genre in 2018 and continued its reign in 2019, according to Nielsen Music. by Nolan Jones When Cassie Crim, a high school math teacher in Joliet, Illinois, introduced herself to her advanced…
How to Maintain Healthy Emotional Boundaries in the Classroom
by Amanda Eidinger I probably don’t have to tell you that, as much as we love doing it, teaching can be physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausting work. By the time I get home from a day of teaching and office hours, I tend to feel…
Before His Death, Canadian Adjunct Prof. Was Under Investigation for Sexual Harassment
by Raechel Huizinga Former adjunct English Professor Andrew Bretz, who passed away on Aug. 21, 2018 at the age of 42, was under investigation for sexual harassment by the University in the months leading up to his death. In a series of…
NYU Adjunct Professor Launches City-Wide Subway Protests
An NYU adjunct professor is allegedly the organizer of the protests in the subways that caused $100,000 worth of damage in the last few months.
by Emily Mason
Gallatin Adjunct Professor Amin Husain is the lead organizer…
Columbia College Overpaid 14 Adjuncts. Now, the College Wants Its Money Back
One unassuming day, Kayli Plotner picked up the phone when she realized a Chicago number had been trying to reach her. It was a payroll officer from Columbia who told her she was overpaid in the Fall 2019 semester, and she now owed the…
Adjunct Faculty Face Challenges Adjusting to Emergency Online Instruction
by Rebecca Koenig Like many others teaching college classes across the country, Sharyn Hardy spent the last few days figuring out how to translate her carefully crafted classroom lectures into lessons that her students can learn online. Yet…
Oregon House Bill Would Require State to Pay 90 Percent of Health Care Premiums for Adjuncts
From the Summary of Oregon House Bill 4146: Provides that part-time faculty member at public institution of higher education who qualifies for health care benefits will pay 10 percent of insurance premiums for employee coverage. Requires…
Book Review: Why They Can’t Write
Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and other Necessities By: Bethany Chappel, M.Ed. Students across America sit at their desks in classrooms with teachers who have been given clear expectations about the written work that these students…
