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Survey Reveals Colleges’ Plans Regarding Cuts To Adjunct Hours in Response to Obamacare 26 Aug 2013 | 09:04 am
by Tyler Kingkade Officials at Joliet Junior College, Palm Beach State College, Daytona State College, Bergen Community College and Kean University have decided to limit the hours/courses for adjunct...
With the Jobs of 1,400 PTers in Limbo, DOE Criticizes CCSF Accrediting Panel For Conflicts of Interest 14 Aug 2013 | 09:33 pm
by Will Kane The commission that decided to revoke City College of San Francisco‘s accreditation next year did not adhere to several federal regulations when it investigated the school system, the De...
On Adjunct Activists and Bottom Feeders 7 Aug 2013 | 10:00 pm
by P.D. Lesko AdjunctNation will have been advocating on behalf of the nation’s non-tenured faculty for 21 years this September. I am pleased and proud of the work we’ve done, the award-winning repor...
MOOCs Will Probably Turn Out To Be Little More Than An Edu-tainment “Bubble” 6 Aug 2013 | 09:40 pm
by Peter Scott I have tried, really hard, not to write about MOOCs. But I can’t keep it up forever, and what better time than the silly season to write about this phenomenon, which may transform high...
San Jose State MOOC Experiment Suggests MOOC Pushers May Be Selling Snake Oil 30 Jul 2013 | 03:00 pm
by Michael Hiltzik Let it not be said that San Jose State University hasn’t taught the world a valuable lesson in the promises and pitfalls of the fancy new craze for online university learning. The...
Unionization Boosts Pay For Adjunct Faculty, But Adjuncts Deserve More Than a Boost 30 Jul 2013 | 02:28 am
by P.D. Lesko Science, the magazine, posted this to the Careers section of its website on July 29th: For the 73% of America’s college and university teachers who are adjuncts working part-time and o...
Do MOOCs Spell Disaster For Adjunct Faculty? 30 Jul 2013 | 12:43 am
by David S. D’Angelo Within higher education, non-tenured faculty are not only on the front lines of higher education, their jobs are most often impacted tremendously by technological and political c...
Stepping Out of the Distance Ed Classroom Because: “Online Classes are Too Rigid, Too Much Like a Factory” 25 Jul 2013 | 03:00 pm
by Ronnie Burt I just submitted final grades for the last time. This means that today marks my last day teaching online. For the past 3+ years, I’ve been an online adjunct faculty member at a univer...
Summer Semester Blues 24 Jul 2013 | 08:00 pm
by Emily Van Duyne For the humble adjunct, or at least for this one, the semester break is not the greatest time. My last paltry paycheck for spring 2013 has already cleared (and been spent on bills)...
Definition of Crazy? FTer Gives Up Teaching Job For Life As An “Entrepreneurial Journalist” and Adjunct 24 Jul 2013 | 07:27 pm
by Laurie White Other things you might miss once they’re not there anymore include paid sick leave, paid time off, and a chunk of a bi-weekly paycheck I took for granted for a very long time. Like m...
