Chronicle of Higher Education

by Joseph G. Ramsey, Ph.D. Having now re-read AdjunctNation's response to my essay "The Invisible Faculty,"  and having had a chance to digest a range of responses to both the AdjunctNation piece and mine, I'm prepared to offer some…

by P.D. Lesko On Feb. 22, 2017, Blaine Greteman, an associate professor of English at the University of Iowa, penned an essay for The Chronicle of Higher Education titled, "Don't Blame Tenured Academics for the Adjunct Crisis." In his…

by P.D. Lesko AdjunctNation will have been advocating on behalf of the nation's non-tenured faculty for 21 years this September. I am pleased and proud of the work we've done, the award-winning reporting we've published and of the recent…

by P.D. Lesko I scanned the list of signers, and recognized many of the names. Good, hardworking people. Well-intentioned people. I’ve met many of them at conferences over the years. Interviewed several of them for Adjunct Advocate magazine…

If colleges and universities were serious about making school more affordable, they could start herding professors back into their classrooms. The declining teaching load of tenured professors and tenure-track faculty has boosted the…

The Internal Revenue Service put colleges and universities on warning with new proposed rules issued this month, warning them not to skimp when counting the hours adjunct faculty work. The guidelines from the IRS could be critical to…

by Debra Leigh Scott While Chris LaBree and I were on the first leg of our Homeless Adjunct road tour, the updated list of university president salaries was released from The Chronicle of Higher Education. Here we were, traveling the…

By Kristina Chew College tuition keeps going up and also the amount of debt students and their families take on. College costs more not because of professors’ salaries: The Chronicle of Higher Education says that, according to the latest…

This week I'd like to touch on a two surveys related to adjuncts (and writing). The first is a recent survey done by The Chronicle of Higher Education. It's dated October 18, 2009, and it reviews data gathered from April through July 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. Students dropping out like flies? Why, blame the adjuncts. As I…