If you haven't noticed from my past entries that I like a bit of cheekiness (well, maybe even a lot of cheekiness), then you're not reading my…
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I participate in a city-wide politics email listserv in the town where I live. Recently, a woman posted a detailed message about what the group should do…
[private]Did pigs just fly overhead? Is hell freezing over? Check out this post from the Law Librarian blog: AAUP Calls for Placing Adjunct Faculty on Tenure Track…
In 1975, there were about 275,000 part-time faculty employed in the United States. Over the past 30 years, the number of faculty off the tenure-track has mushroomed…
According to this piece posted to the Gazette.Net web site, 1,075 part-time faculty at Montgomery College voted to affiliate with the SEIU on June 3rd. The group…
Ian Houlihan, we'll call him "Hotlips," just for fun, is a tenured faculty member at a Catholic University in the Northeast. In the February 23rd edition of…
By P.D. Lesko Over the course of the past three years, adjunct and part-time faculty have been systematically scape-goated for any number of problems plaguing the Academy.…
by P.D. Lesko Friends, folks, fellow education workers, Romans, countryman, there's Trouble in Idaho. I say there's Trouble. That's Trouble with a capital T, and that rhymes…
Before you huff and puff at me, I want to say that it the title of this piece comes from the Executive Director of the Modern Language…
By now, mainstream media outlets have published hundreds, if not thousands of pieces about the plight of part-time faculty. On March 31st, The Nation joined the fray…
