In between these actual posts about writing and adjuncts, the subject is always simmering in the back of my mind. What is the relationship? What should the…
tenure
Let me start with a few minor updates: On the plus side, I've got some interesting interviews coming up. On the negative/absent side, I still haven't heard…
By Ron Tinsley In my previous entry, "Predicting the Future of College Teaching: Robo Adjuncts & GPS Student Trackers," I offered up the first five of ten predictions…
By Lance Eaton The question has all the hallmarks of: “When are you going to settle down and have kids?” It implies that I’m not legitimate, or…
by Steven Knapp Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus have written a lucid, passionate and wide-ranging book on the state of American higher education and what they…
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…
Recently I dipped in to the January 11, 2010 edition of the world's best magazine, I mean, The New Yorker. There I found "After the Blowup," an…