part-time faculty

Professors are humans, and humans are prejudiced, and they definitely won’t become better if they don’t know that their words and actions are eliciting these kinds of reactions from their students. And while sometimes we feel comfortable…

Put on your seatbelt when you decide to sit down and read, Confessions of a Teacher Or, How to Be a Part-Timer, by Mary Allen Redd. You’re about to experience an unfiltered, daringly bold and outspoken treatise about the experience of…

According to Childress, this addiction-abuse cycle is killing the profession. I would argue that "the profession" is just fine, thank you. The self-proclaimed core of profession which consists of administrators, tenure-line and tenured…

The most important time-saver that I have is the agenda; it's similar to a lesson plan. Some of my classes meet once per week, some twice, or three times per week. Thanks to my use of agendas, I have a 4-hour course, plus grading and…

Pitt faculty began collecting confidential union cards in January 2018. Their goals include addressing concerns about pay and job security for adjunct and part-time faculty. They also would like to see more academic freedom and greater…

by Rachel Friedman In November 2018, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) withdrew its petition to unionize Non-Tenure Track (NTT) faculty members in the College of Arts and Science, marking the end of an ongoing movement to …

Adjunct faculty support of or deference to full-time faculty who strike is lunacy. At Wright State University, these full-time faculty are striking because they want more money, don't like sharing more in the cost of the health care options…

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…

The plea du jour to tenured and tenure-line college faculty is to "stand up" for adjunct and part-time teaching faculty. The argument is that in doing so those full-time faculty will benefit. This is yet another wild pitch in the dirt from…

But while the working conditions of these sessional instructors is a central problem to be tackled at universities, many full-time professors are also awakening to the rising difficulties associated with their job. In fact, the ‘sessional…