Sandra Schroeder is feeling misunderstood. I wrote about her in an earlier post. More specifically, I wrote about her testimony in front of legislators in Washington State in support of the AFT's FACE initiative. Yesterday, adjunct activist Keith Holler got the treatment from AFT's Craig...
FACE
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.
Before you huff and puff at me, I want to say that it the title of this piece comes from the Executive Director of the Modern Language Association, Rosemary Feal,.
There are a mere 40,800 college faculty in Canada, and 50-60 percent of them work off the tenure-track. According to a piece published in the Calgary Herald, the overuse of scads of perma-temp faculty in Canada is "coming to a boil." Why? The rapid expansion...
I am thinking about sending a letter to President Obama. In it, I will apply to run any bank of his choosing for $400,000 per year. Since adjuncts are used.
by P.D. Lesko Some people I know are under the impression that pay "parity" and pay "equity" mean the same thing. They're wrong, of course. Those two words are not.
The AFT recently came out with a new study that concludes part-time faculty are teaching a majority of the courses offered at public colleges and universities in the U.S. I suppose the surprise, then, has to do with the use of part-time faculty at 4-year...
People send me letters, emails, newsletters, book proposals, pleas for money, applications for employment, and all manner of information. Yesterday, I got a faxed copy of the May/June Spotlight, the.
Listen to my blog entry here. Everyone hurries through certain tasks. I hurry through brushing my hair sometimes in the morning if I am up late. I pay for it,.
Ever been struck by lightning? Ever won $1,000,000 bucks in the lottery? Ever had a tenure-track job handed to you? Hell's Bells, then, you're never standing in the wrong place; you're never picking the sweet numbers; you don't know the right people; and you didn't...
