part-time faculty

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…

The challenges, struggles, poor pay and non-existent institutional support continue to crush the life out of hundreds of thousands of non-tenured faculty. Will the general public ever care? I don't think so. While mainstream media continue…

With no job security and low pay in one of the most expensive cities in North America, hundreds of employees at a world-class university are struggling to simply pay their bills.This article is only available to subscribers. If you're a…

Within a few weeks, Kapila and two other union members, Michele Hoffman and Carey Friedman, received Integrity Committee notices informing them that they'd been charged with causing harm to the union and summoning them to hearings. The…

I belittled one student by criticizing him in front of others. I favored another student by telling other students they should be more like her. I responded impatiently to questions. I told one student his contribution to class was…

Academics write for the public more than ever before but are hampered by precariousness of their profession. This article is only available to subscribers. If you're a subscriber, log in. To subscribe, choose the subscription that suits…

The reason I’m sharing this is not because I want sympathy – far from it. I’m sharing this because I know that there are at least 1.3 million professors across the United States working on contingent contracts, many who may well be…

There are two types of complaints: chronic complaints and venting. According to psychological research, "in one series of studies, researchers tracked people’s moods before and after hearing a complaint. As predicted, listening to gripes…