Freeway Flyer

Is It My Fault If I Can’t Find FT Teaching?

by Jill Darling I started writing this mini-essay project on contingency at the beginning of the year, and thought I would continue for the duration of 2015. But now I think I am done here. I will say, it has often helped. Writing can often help. There...

Is It Even Possible to Teach Critical Thinking to Today's College Students?

By Jenny Ortiz It's no secret that as a society, we get our basic legal information from the television show "Law & Order." When I interact with students, most cite.

When Is One More Chance One More Too Many? Student Excuses

By Jenny Ortiz Given that classes during winter sessions are so short, missing a class or two can mean failing the class. Currently at LaGuardia, my students and I have.

The Princes of Academe: How Academic Administration is Hurting Education

By Jenny Ortiz There's a difference between blue and yellow. There's an obvious difference between a house and a cardboard box. When did the difference between academic administration and politicians become so hard to define and separate? Recently, I was at a workshop on the...

Are Adjuncts At Risk of Failing Our At Risk Students?

By Jenny Ortiz Student 1 is always 2 minutes late because her job won't let her leave early. Student 2 has never been to the museum. Student 3 is pledging.

Smart Classrooms Being Abandoned For Smarter Students: Should Profs Ban Technology in Class?

By Jenny Ortiz Most of your students don't know who Chuck Norris is. Many of them don't watch as much television as you think. The only reading they do is.

Why Are More & More Students Unprepared to Succeed in College?

By Jenny Ortiz Freshman. Freshies. Freshmeat. Whatever the term for first year students may be at any college, what is agreed upon is that in the next four years they will learn a lot in and outside of the classroom. From day one, their parents ...

Is There Such A Thing As Being TOO Available to Students?

By Jenny Ortiz It's well known that as a Freeway Flyer, I find myself running from campus to campus to not only get to my classes but to spend more.

Finding Elbow Room: Dealing With Overcrowded Classrooms

By Jenny Ortiz Though I teach literature, I was doing some calculations this week. If I have two classes at Adelphi with 20 students in each class, I am accountable.

Developing Adjunct Faculty Part 2

by Richard Lyons AS DISCUSSED IN my last column, employing adjunct instructors provides our institutions many benefits beyond reducing overall instructional costs. These include enriching our curricula with real-world perspectives, offering highly specialized courses for increasingly demanding students, cultivating linkages to community resources, and providing staffing...