Welcome to the start of a New Year and a new blog here at AdjunctNation.com! My name is Susan Mazur-Stommen, and I will be writing here weekly on the topic of teaching tips across the higher education spectrum. I am a cultural anthropologist from Inland Southern...
The MLA is hurting financially. At the Philadelphia conference, the organization's leadership voted to increase dues for the first time since 1993. I'd say 16 years of holding firm on.
Eastern Michigan University's 450 part-time lecturers are one step closer to gaining union representation. Union organizers filed for an election Wednesday with the Michigan Employment Relations Commission, the state agency.
A review by Jerry A. Coyne Richard Dawkins's new collection of delectable prose, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing, is less an anthology of set pieces than a treasury: a series of short titbits designed to pique the reader's appetite, helping him to decide which...
reviewed by Jay Mathews STONES INTO SCHOOLS Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan By Greg Mortenson Viking. 420 pp. $26.95 Greg Mortenson's first book, Three Cups.
In an unprecedented move, the faculty, staff and administration of Mendocino College have agreed to a 4 percent salary reduction beginning January 1. All regular employees, from classified workers to.
Eastern Michigan University's 450 part-time lecturers are one step closer to gaining union representation. Union organizers filed for an election Wednesday with the Michigan Employment Relations Commission, the state agency that handles union elections. If half of active adjuncts, plus one, votes "yes" in a subsequent...
by Ken Ilgunas first posted 12/6/09 to OpenSalon.com I was lying on the floor of my van where the middle pilot chairs used to be, trying to hide from view..
by Mona Charen first published in the National Review. The U.S. Civil Rights Commission (yes, it’s still around, and yes, it’s outlived its usefulness) is about to subtract from national.
by Balarabe Yushau Last year, the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC) Professor Julius Okojie (left) gave a threatening statement to all university lecturers in Nigeria—to the effect that all lecturers must possess a doctoral degree by the year 2009 or lose their jobs...
