Book Review: The Academic Portfolio A Practical Guide to Documenting Teaching, Research, and…
An academic portfolio makes sense particularly for adjunct instructors, and I am so glad I found this resource. The book definitely speaks to the adjunct audience, but it is also a great source for faculty at all levels, administrators,…
Want an Easy Way to Keep in Touch With Students? Create a Course Newsletter
by Julie Candio
Do you remember what happened last Wednesday? No? Sometimes our students don't either. And I don't blame them.
While students can refer to the course syllabus, there may have been announcements mentioned during class…
Elon U Adjuncts Vote to Affiliate With SEIU: College Officials Appeal Vote to NLRB
by Elizabeth Pattman Elon University has gone up the ladder, filing a request for review with the national office of the National Labor Relations Board after the regional director certified a vote to unionize adjunct faculty on Tuesday,…
Is Higher Education in the Throws of an Existential Crisis?
by Alison Snyder and Kim Hart “Universities were designed to last, not change.”Bridget Burns, executive director, the University Innovation Alliance U.S. colleges and universities — historically cornerstones of society — are…
Seven Tips on How to Help Your Students Take Better Notes
In a graduate-level educational psychology course at Florida State University, my professor didn’t allow students to take notes. He reasoned that taking notes prevented students from reflecting on the lesson. Yet, the professor also thought…
The Digital Educator’s Toolkit
by Jason Cole
I want to take a moment and drill down into the digital toolkit all educators will need to understand in the coming years. As someone with a few decades of experience in this field, I hope to boil it down and reduce the…
Can You Say What Your Strategy is for Student Success?
by Jason Cole
As we explore the digital transformation of education, it’s essential to keep the why of the change in mind. I recently re-read a great article on e-literate by Mike Feldstein…
Using Humor in the College Classroom: Funny You Should Ask
By Drew C. Appleby, Ph.D. The use of humor in the college classroom has been researched extensively (see Segrist & Hupp, 2015 who summarized 41 years of literature on humor in the college classroom) and has been shown to have many…
Adjuncts Sharing Salary Data: Crowdsourced Transparency Takes Off
by Steve Dubb Earlier this year, NPQ wrote about a group of employees at museums and art nonprofits who created an online spreadsheet to share salary information to call attention to their low wages. Now, adjunct college faculty are doing…
Post Janus v. AFSCME: PSC-CUNY Union Loses Thousands of Agency Fee Payers
by P.D. Lesko A recent report challenging the membership numbers of the Professional Staff Congress in the City University of New York (PSC-CUNY) union revealed that several thousand of the union’s members, primarily agency fee…
