News For the Adjunct Faculty Nation

More Mistakes From My First Semester Teaching Online

by Jonathan Rees My first semester as an online instructor is almost over. Who knows where the time goes? Curating a respectable online survey course experience comes with a lot of responsibility. In my humble opinion, too many online U.S. history survey courses cling to the...

Want to Break into Online Learning? Try These Tips

Online teaching can seem like a great gig. The convenience and flexibility afforded by online delivery is a draw for students and instructors alike. But, finding online teaching jobs seems.

10 Things Teaching Online Has Taught Me

Michelle Everson I celebrated an anniversary recently. It's been five years since I taught my first online course. When I first started to think about teaching online, I realized I.

Ithaca College Adjunct Union Mulls Spring Strike Over Pay

by Alyvia Covert The cold wind and beginning flurries Thursday afternoon did not prevent contingent faculty members at Ithaca College from rallying outside the Peggy Ryan Williams Center, as they called in unison: “equal pay for equal work.” In May 2015, part-time faculty at the college passed...

College Enrollment is Down for Fifth Straight Year—Will The Decline Impact Non-Tenured Faculty?

by P.D. Lesko According to the Hechinger Report, "college and university enrollment fell during the semester just coming to an end, marking a fifth straight year of decline." Some academic.

Michigan Adjunct Files Court Injunction Against Faculty Contract That Cuts Pay

by Kayla Tucker A Grand Rapids Community College adjunct professor filed a court injunction at the Kent County 17th Circuit Court to stop the Board of Trustees from ratifying a.

The Academic Circle of Life & Excellent Usage of Commas

by Laura Yeager There is a great circle of life that occurs at the university. Years ago, when I was in graduate school at Iowa State University, I was studying with Jane Smiley. I had won a fellowship (The Pearl Hogrefe Creative Writing Fellowship) for my...

All the World’s a Stage and Adjuncts, Merely Voters on It

by Alissa Montalbano Flustered by official analysis and ad nauseam personal opinions of politics spewed about using purported facts, and even, god forbid, math, we English Majors usually sit by.

1,300+ Kent State Adjuncts Rebuffed by AFT/NEA/AAUP Affiliate With United Steel Workers

by Alex Delaney-Gesing Traci West doesn’t teach film courses in Kent State’s Journalism and Mass Communication program for the money. She teaches because it’s what she wants to do with the.

Adjuncts & Scholarship: An Interview

by Olivia Baxter Sherry Engstrom, an Adjunct Humanities Instructor at the College of Lake County, was a 2016 Striving for Excellence Adjunct Scholarship Winner. She was presented the opportunity to attend and speak at a panel discussion at the 2016 NISOD Conference in Austin, TX. Sherry...

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