AA 52 More Perspectives I'd like to continue last week's process of breaking out of my own habitual limits by seeing the topic of adjuncts and writing from other perspectives. Consider the word from eHow, a popular site devoted to telling people how...
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I received a brief and surprising email today. The first surprise was that the email arrived at all. You see, I'd emailed Elizabeth Strout, whose complex and often lovely novel.
By Kat Kiefer-Newman Welcome back fellow adjuncts! I hope your holidays and break were full of fun and joy and happy times. I definitely had my share of those things,.
By Kat Kiefer-Newman One of my colleges is a quiet, little collection of buildings neatly tucked in among several large, pastorally lovely, and incredibly smelly dairies. A few days after the occasional rain we get here in the desert valley of Southern California the hills turn...
By Kat Kiefer-Newman I've been sick. Very, very sick. We all get sick, I know. This Fall semester, though, the weather seems especially chaotic, and my students have been particularly.
By Kat Kiefer-Newman Note: The following word "lisense" is in no way the fault of my indispensible and acurate-spelling editor. I have another sore throat, and the damp-rainy season here in.
By Kat Kiefer-Newman It never fails: Students always complain about having to go to class the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Hey! I don't like having to report to work on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, either. Year-after-year, my husband and I scramble to get everything done before...
By Kat Kiefer-Newman I hate tests. Maybe that's an odd confession from an instructor, but it's true. It doesn't matter if it's an academic test, either. I react poorly to.
By Kat Kiefer-Newman Halloween. This really doesn't matter much in the college classroom, I know; except when it does (like if class falls on Halloween, or the day after Halloween,.
By Stanley Fish Last week, as I was preparing a presentation for still another conference on the fate of the liberal arts in our time, two things happened. The first was that I read or re-read a bunch of recent books (mostly short and...
