For those unfamiliar with this particular saint, St. Lawrence was roasted alive on a grill. Legend has it that rather than tell the Roman soldiers where the riches of the church were hidden (among them the Holy Grail), he said, "I am done on this...
Adjunct Advocate
It has been a loooooong road making the switch from print to digital. Thus far, we have had nothing but positive responses from readers. I have been particularly encouraged by.
On the 20th of November, the New York Times ran a piece titled "Decline of Tenure Track Raises Concerns." In that piece, Keith Hoeller, an adjunct activist from Washington State,.
by Kristen Kennedy Recent figures put the number of contingent faculty working in colleges and universities at 65 percent of the 1.3 million faculty currently teaching in the United States. We generally read this number as an indicator of where we are in that part of the...
This issue marks the second time we have looked at the use of part-time faculty in countries other than the United States. The first time, in the May/June 2002 issue,.
Waiting for the Green I teach at a community college in Iowa. At the end of the Winter Term last year, someone got the idea that we adjuncts could go.
by P.D. Lesko September is a very busy month for part-time faculty. Some aren’t sure what their final teaching schedules will look like, others have their courses, but need to construct course descriptions and syllabi in record time. There are texts to be selected, course...
A Tale of Gluttony and Greed in California I was so angry and frustrated after I read the May/June 2004 cover story that I could have spit nails. Millions and.
by P.D. Lesko IN NOVEMBER OF 2001, a San Francisco part-time faculty activist, Margaret Quan, sent me an e-mail. She wrote that during the previous month she’d attended a BayFac.
Eileen Schell Interview As an aspiring nonagenarian, I object to Eileen Schell’s patronizing remark, “my oldest student is currently 90 years young” (Interview with Eileen Shell, January/February 2004). Attempting to praise old people by calling them young is as illogical and basically bigoted as attempting...
