In late-December, the University of Denver law school announced the newest addition to its faculty: disgraced former FEMA administrator Michael Brown, forever remembered for doing a “heckuva” (i.e. incompetent) job during Hurricane Katrina. This spring, Brown will be teaching students about the Patriot Act. A description...
Times are tough for everyone, and I have spent the past 18 years writing about the issues that impact the nation's 700,000 faculty off of the tenure-track. When I began.
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,.
On the front page of the AdjunctNation.com site, there is a feature called The Daily Excuse. AdjunctNation.com Family members can log in and leave their best student excuses. Those excuses rotate on the front page. I thought it might be fund to post a longer list...
College administrators rend their garments and wail about student retention. Turns out, though, fretting over student retention is much like fretting about fried food: No matter the depth of concern.
The session presentation was titled “Optimizing the Use of Part-Time Faculty.” Titles like this make me queasy, because “optimizing” people generally goes well for those doing the optimizing and badly.
This week I'd like to touch on a two surveys related to adjuncts (and writing). The first is a recent survey done by The Chronicle of Higher Education. It's dated October 18, 2009, and it reviews data gathered from April through July of the same year....
by P.D. Lesko Eliza Doolittle sputters in response to yet another petty humiliation: "Just you wait, Henry Higgins!" As the saying goes, revenge is a dish best served cold. To.
This week I thought I'd shift gears a bit. Assuming that the folks who read this blog write, or want to write, I thought I'd share a bit on writing.
[private]This week I had the opportunity to talk with one of the stars of science writing, Marcia Bartusiak. When she won the AIP Science Writing Award in 1982, she was the first woman to ever do so. Since that time, she's won that award again (in 2001,...
