by Shari Dinkins When we find supplies or equipment missing on campus, our immediate thought is: students. The response is so basic, so quick that we may not access the rational part of our brains. Odd true story: at one state university, students stole the balls...
by Brigadier General Ed Wheeler (USA-Ret) Several years ago, I hung up my uniform at the end of a 35-year military career. Shortly afterward, I was asked to teach as.
by Mark J. Drozdowski Despite years of study, I never could grasp French. In college, I was a walking paradox: I had a great facility for English but couldn’t comprehend.
by Judy Lever-Duffy, Ed.D. For faculty who choose to include numerous activities in their courses, one of the most bothersome aspects of preparing for classes is the many and frequent visits to the campus copy center. Whether copying handouts, diagrams, or student activities that a teacher...
Harper College’s part-time teachers are making another push to unionize, a decade after the last effort failed. If they organize, they will be following in the footsteps of the adjunct.
New York University president John Sexton has waded into one of the thorniest issues in higher education, with critics bemoaning the status of undergraduate education at research universities, where ‘star’.
[private]Q: Our topic today, electronic publishing, covers a lot of territory. What are the parameters of electronic publishing in higher education--from a very high-level perspective? A: There are two rather separate things going on, that occasionally get jumbled together under the guise of electronic publishing even...
by Jo Gibson Right now,” Diane said, sitting at her desk in the adjunct faculty offices, “I’d probably faint dead away if I were offered health insurance through my job..
by Vicki Urquhart History professors Benjamin Johnson and Kevin Mattson, and union representative Patrick Kavanagh, provide an insider’s look at the academic labor movement in Steal This University. Labor activists.
by P.D. Lesko THEY SAY THAT a business either changes or it withers and dies. So, for the past two years, I have been casting about for a way to expand the Adjunct Advocate, Inc. Should we publish a Canadian edition? What about a Spanish edition?...
