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In These Economic Times: Keeping Up With the Tenured

By Helene A. Matheny There are two realities related to our current economic climate that relate to being a Freeway Flyer adjunct. To our benefit, with the ballooning cost of higher education, more students are seeking to earn their core credits at quality community colleges....

Opening the Tenure Discussion = Opening a Wound?

I've avoided opening the discussion about how adjuncts can earn tenure because opening the tenure discussion often seems like opening a wound that never heals. It is actually easier to.

Celebrating the Adjunct Writer: Carol Amato

I've spent a lot of time in recent posts lamenting this or that aspect of the adjunct's relationship with writing. I'd like to take a break from that to celebrate.

How to Get Published as an Educator

by Paul Thomas One of the best and most significant changes for me when I moved from high school English teaching to being a college professor was a blossoming of my life as a writer. In the spring of my first year of college — almost 40...

The Responsibility of Adjunct Intellectuals

by Corey Robin In the 1990s the philosopher and Arts & Letters Daily editor Dennis Dutton ran an annual Bad Writing contest in order to highlight turgid academic prose. If the contest.

Print vs. Digital Books? The Majority of Americans Still Favor Print

by Andrew Perrin A growing share of Americans are reading e-books on tablets and smartphones rather than dedicated e-readers, but print books remain much more popular than books in digital.

Kindles, Nooks, And Why I Still Don’t Have An e-Reader (At Least Not Yet)

By Rich Russell The season for reading is here, friends! I feel guilty about how little progress I've made on the stack of books nesting on my bedside table: a veritable, vertical library that teeters like some structurally unsound tower threatening to collapse and smother...

New Report Suggests English Lit Profs. Writing Too Much Worthless, Well, Crap

by John D'Angelo Here's what stupid uneducated people imagine that college literature professors do: teach. Here is what college literature professors actually do: write obscure papers that nobody will read..

Write On! An Interview With Dana S. Dunn

This week we're shifting focus a bit. Dana S. Dunn is Professor of Psychology at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Moravian is a small and selective liberal arts college with.

If They Won't Let Us Play…

I'm not sure how I feel about wordriver, but I'm glad it exists, and I'm wildly intrigued. You see, wordriver is a new (as of 2009) literary journal. Like many other little magazines, wordriver publishes short stories, poetry, and personal essays. However, as far as...

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