One of the things that struck me when I started working on this blog was how little research had been done into the great sea change of academic labor that is using adjuncts instead of tenure-track faculty. However, little research is not no research, and...
CCCCs
One of the things that struck me when I started working on this blog was how little research had been done into the great sea change of academic labor that.
The session presentation was titled “Optimizing the Use of Part-Time Faculty.” Titles like this make me queasy, because “optimizing” people generally goes well for those doing the optimizing and badly.
A few weeks ago I commented on how some of the major academic organizations (Modern Language Association [MLA], National Council of Teachers of English [NCTE]) supported adjunct attendance at their conferences, both financially and rhetorically. I decided to return to that topic and contact some...
I am presenting at the March 2009 National Council of English Teacher's CCCCs Conference in San Francisco. I just visited the NCTE's web site and used their great conference event.
Greg Zobel, who writes the blog for Bedford St. Martin's web site, and a blog we featured in our piece on adjunct bloggers in the January/February 2008 issue of Adjunct.