January was a little scary...ok...a lot scary. We watched, more than slightly terrified, as sales dropped and dropped and, well, you get the picture. February, normally a slow month for sales of books, subscriptions and job postings, was a record month in terms of sales. So,...
While reading another blog, I saw a reader comment that the lay-offs of adjunct faculty will be the best thing that could ever happen to higher education in a long.
Out West where the buffalo roam, the antelope play and the Humvees hum down Highway 101, there's a slaughter going on. Had anyone bothered to ask me, I would have.
Just a quick entry to let folks know that I am blogging about part-time faculty at The Chronicle of Higher Education. Click here to read my February 26, 2009 entry. I'm very excited to have an opportunity to blog about part-time faculty there, as some of...
They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. I suppose. Sometimes, it's annoying. However, I try to be good-natured and remember that as a publisher I have led.
Several adjunct faculty, including Keith Hoeller, Ross Borden, Gregory Zobel and Deborah Lewis, have announced the launch of the National Coalition for Adjunct Equity. Ross Borden was quoted as saying, "The.
Evidently, while adjuncts are busy being too busy to ever meet with their students after class, too undedicated to students and jobs to care about it, too busy destroying the fiber of undergraduate education, we're also contributing to the destruction of the humanities, as well. According...
It's easy to spread rumors. It's easy to take myths and, by constant repetition, give them the patina of reality. George W. Bush was a master at this artistic skill..
I am thinking about sending a letter to President Obama. In it, I will apply to run any bank of his choosing for $400,000 per year. Since adjuncts are used.
In the February 3rd edition of The New York Times, I read that Dr. Nancy Zimpher, president of the University of Cincinnati since 2003, is heading out east to head the SUNY system. In that job, she'll oversee some 8,000 part-time faculty employed throughout the 64-campus SUNY...
