Recently I had two experiences that made me realize how much I'd changed, and how much things have changed. (Stay with me—this really is about adjuncts and writing.) Both of these experiences came when interacting with one of the schools for whom I'm an adjunct. Experience...
By P.D. Lesko First, I'd like to say thank you to all of the new individual and college library Site Pass holders who joined us in April. The purchase of.
San Antonio College French Lecturer Pierre Schmitz could have used a little advice from movie mogul Sam Goldwyn. Monsieur Schmitz worked as a full-time adjunct instructor until quite recently. Well, until.
By Jenny Ortiz Too often recently, I've been pushing aside my work load in order to simply sit still. Mornings, I find myself wondering whether I should grade papers or stare up at my ceiling? At first I thought it was the weather. Yesterday, however, I came...
I can't help myself. It's just too tempting, and no one in the union leadership at CUNY can have my chalk holders broken. As you may remember, (or not) I.
I've mentioned from time to time how little research has been done about the shift in the academic labor force to primarily adjunct faculty that defines us all. I've also.
By Rich Russell (This post for for my fellow AN blogger Kat. Kat, I hope at least some of this is helpful.) The best advice I received when I first started teaching was, of course, from my mom, who taught high school herself for ten years...
By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. Things have been going along fairly smoothly. I've started to feel that I am (for the most part) one step ahead of the game in.
By Kat Kiefer-Newman Recently, I was at a fellow adjunct's house relaxing, enjoying a glass of something sweet, and talking about dining with several other colleagues. Without any warning one.
From the January 21, 2010 edition of the San Francisco Chronicle: Finances are so dire at the University of California that it might have to turn away qualified students, but UC's regents still found a way to reward hundreds of employees with more than $4 million in incentive pay...
