News For the Adjunct Faculty Nation

Land of a Thousand Lesson Plans

by Evelyn Beck “OF THE PEOPLE, by the people, for the people…” Those famous words from Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address referred to the U.S. government. But they might also apply to MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and On-line Teaching), an invaluable—and free—resource of over 10,000...

University of Cincinnati Lecturers Move Forward in Gaining Recognition for Bargaining Unit

A GROUP OF part-time teachers at the University of Cincinnati is expected to take another step today toward gaining formal recognition as a bargaining unit. This will be the first.

SISU Adjuncts Set to Vote For

NEARLY 16 YEARS after the last union vote, some of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s professors will choose whether to go union this fall. SIUE’s nontenure-track lecturers and instructors will vote.

Waiting for The Green: MTSU Part-timers Go From 4 Paychecks to 3

FOR SOME ADJUNCTS at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), the recent news that they’ll now be paid three times per semester--not the traditional four times per academic term--is causing them to look elsewhere, including online, for work. According to a May 14, 2004, memo issued by...

Letters to the Editor

The Chronicle Faces Rough Seas I read with interest Chris Cumo’s article on The Chronicle in your July/August 2004 issue. Several things have changed since Chris interviewed me last November..

From There to Here: Award Winning Adjunct Faculty Discuss Excellence in the Classroom

by Greg Beatty It’s the start of a new class. You’re about to enter the classroom, but you pause for a moment just outside the door. You have a vision.

Down With Boring e-Learning

by Ryann Ellis Michael Allen is the CEO of Allen Interactions. For those of you not familiar with his work, Allen has been at the heart of the multimedia industry for more than 25 years, and was a principal designer of Control Data Corporation’s PLATO® computer-based education...

Course Development Contracts

by P.D. Lesko It’s common for an institution to ask part-time faculty who develop courses for use on-line to sign some kind of on-line course development agreement. We secured a.

On-Line Lingo 101

Analog: A signal that is received in the same form in which it is transmitted, while the amplitude and frequency may vary. Amplitude: The amount of variety in a signal..

Distance Education: Getting Started

by Jo Gibson Adjunct faculty have a wide comfort zone: they prepare lectures, monitor classroom discussion, devise tests, assign grades--no problem! However, even for faculty with wide-ranging professional skills and experience, on-line teaching can be a hard sell. Consider Dr. David Dutton [pseud.], professor and department...

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