As an instructor, what does it mean to be a good listener? Is it about the actions taken when responding to a learner’s message? When an adult learner is communicating with their instructor it is important to consider the difference between hearing what they say...
adjunct faculty
You know how the dialogue goes when trying to explain your career path to people outside academia. Oftentimes the thought of working online from the comfort of home is too.
[private]by Amy Rolph Faculty at the Art Institute of Seattle voted against taking an unprecedented move to unionize in July. If successful, the move would have been a first for.
by Melissa Quijada A state debate over whether graduate assistants and adjunct faculty members have the right to unionize has sparked contention among state officials and heated responses from graduate students, but adjunct faculty have remained largely quiet on an issue that some say should...
Adjunct faculty at Central Michigan University will vote for union representation in May 2010. Several adjunct faculty filed in February 2010 for a union representation election with Michigan Employment Relations.
The Boy Scouts of America have a motto that simply says "Be prepared." There is an adage called "Murphy's Law" that says "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.".
Over at the OK Corral that is The Chronicle of Higher Education, they've printed a commentary by adjunct Deborah Lewis. Lewis offers several solutions to improve the pay, performance and working conditions for adjunct faculty. I like some of her ideas. Much of what she...
At the University of South Carolina, president Harris Pastides has a $39 million dollar budget deficit. That sounds horrifying to those of us with $39 dollars in our savings accounts..
Let's be honest; Pope Benedict XVI has little charisma. Whereas John Paul II was the Frank Sinatra of the Vatican, Pope Benedict is more the Joey Bishop of the Papal.
On April 20th, a fellow writing for The Chronicle of Higher Education in a column called the "Two-Year Track" published an essay titled "Why Adjuncts Have an Edge (Except When They Don't)." Well, well, I thought, finally someone will explain just why adjuncts seem always...
