Back to School When Your Job is Contingent
Today is the last day to take the New Faculty Majority’s survey on contingent faculty appointments. With the survey, the NFM is trying to get a snapshot of the back-to-school experiences of faculty on...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing a Compilation of Adjunct Working Conditions
Josh Boldt is a Writing Instructor and EdTech Consultant at the University of Georgia. This entry is cross-posted from his blog Copy & Paste. Yesterday, Michael Bérubé, president of the Modern...
View ArticleAdjunct Positions and Student Learning
A new report out today from the Campaign for the Future of Higher Education (of which the AAUP is a member) focuses on problems faced by contingent faculty–and, by extension, their students–at the...
View ArticleThe Persistence of Crisis: Work Harder or Fight Back
At my monthly department meeting yesterday, the department’s representative to our University Senate gave his report on their last meeting. As part of his report, he told us some of the concerns our...
View ArticleCampus Equity Week, Contingent Faculty’s First Try at a National Strategic...
By Joe Berry This is the first in a series of Academe Blog guest posts arranged by the AAUP Committee on Contingency and the Profession in celebration of Campus Equity Week. For information on and...
View ArticleWhy You Should Not Miss That Expensive Conference
One Adjunct’s Reflection on the 11th International Conference of the Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor (COCAL) By Chris Cruz-Boone In a candid moment at the COCAL XI debriefing, organizers...
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