By Rich Russell The answer to the question I get asked "all" the time is, yes — I do actually sometimes wear pajamas while teaching online. I'm an early riser, and usually by 5/5:30, when I'm drinking my inaugural 24 ounces of coffee for the day,...
By Kat Kiefer-Newman It's finals week. My college-attending daughters are running around like coffee-addicted wind-up toys. My husband is beyond stressed. I am quivering in the corner, muttering over stacks.
By P.D. Lesko Our Facebook page is picking up speed. Users are beginning to comment, and make their "likes" known. All of our Nation Blogs are linked to Twitter. In.
By P.D. Lesko Last week, we launched our Facebook page and linked all of our Nation Blogs to Twitter. Whew! It's fun to watch the number of people who "like" the AdjunctNation.com Facebook page grow. In the first week, 114 people found us and enjoyed...
It's the Fall, and that is just about the only time I ever miss teaching college. I loved teaching, and every September I would tweak my materials and welcome however.
There's some great content waiting for readers this week on AdjunctNation.com. If you are a site pass holder, no doubt you've checked out the E-Zine content already. My favorite piece.
Results are in from the Faculty Focus survey on Twitter usage and trends among college faculty. The survey of approximately 2,000 higher education professionals found that nearly one-third (30.7 percent) of the 1,958 respondents say they use Twitter in some capacity. More than half, (56.4...
by P.D. Lesko On Twitter, the witty professors are out in force. There are "sarcastic" professors, "burned out" professors, "bitter" professors, professors of "sarcasm," "angry" professors, "snarky" professors, "jaded" professors.
by P.D. Lesko Dr. Frank Tomasulo teaches in New York. In 2014, he was teaching two courses in the Communications Dept. at CUNY. After calling security to remove a disruptive student from the classroom,.
By Shawna Wagman Since Nathan Hall introduced the world to Shit Academics Say in 2013, his humorous Twitter account has become one of the most popular related to academia, with nearly 140,000 followers. Dr. Hall, an associate professor in the department of education and counseling...
