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…
The Midwestern Black Professor Teaching MAGA Babies Is Not All Right
“My adjunct teaching job wound up being a lot more than I bargained for.”
by Jonita Davis
My job in 2017 was to teach Composition I to new college students, showing them how to express themselves through writing. My role quickly…
U.S. Court of Appeals: Duquesne Adjuncts Can’t Unionize
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled Jan. 28 that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has no jurisdiction over the university’s adjunct faculty. According to the ruling, the NLRB does not have the authority to…
Teaching — It’s About Inspiration, Not Information
“Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.” Theodore Roosevelt
by Tina Seelig
This is an important reminder that teaching is all about building a relationship with your students. In fact, in today’s world,…
How to Get Published as an Educator
by Paul Thomas
One of the best and most significant changes for me when I moved from high school English teaching to being a college professor was a blossoming of my life as a writer.
In the spring of my first year of…
At Clark College, Adjuncts Will Earn 65 Percent of FT Faculty Pay Rates
by Don McIntosh After 15 months of frustrating negotiations, it took just two days of striking for about 500 community college faculty to win the best union contract they’ve ever had. Members of Clark College Association for Higher…
Book Review: Going the Distance: A Handbook for Faculty Who Teach Online (Second Edition)
Reviewed by Doreen Lewis, PhD
This is a review of Going the Distance: A Handbook for Faculty Who Teach Online (Second Edition) by Happy Gingras, Patricia Adams and Evelyn Beck, Copyright 2019, Part-Time Press, Inc. ISBN-13:…
Majority of Adjunct Faculty Say They’d Leave Academia if A Different Job Opportunity Arose
by P.D. Lesko
In December 2019, AdjunctNation.com posed this question to over 7,000 social media followers: "If you had a job opportunity outside Academia, would you leave?" Of the 150 faculty who responded, a large number of them said…
Students Claim to Remember More When Reading on Screens, But Their Actual Performance Suffers
by Patricia A. Alexander and Lauren M. Singer Trakhman Today’s students see themselves as digital natives, the first generation to grow up surrounded by technology like smartphones, tablets and e-readers. Teachers, parents and policymakers…
Higher Education Is Not Under Attack; It’s Drowning In Greed, Hypocrisy and Arrogance
by P.D. Lesko
On January 12, 2020 Robert Reich (@RBReich) Tweeted this observation: "American capitalism in a nutshell: The same day it was announced that Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg will receive a $62M golden parachute... 2,800…
