Higher Ed Oligarchy
When John Venn formalized the use of Euler diagrams “as a means of representing relations of inclusion and exclusion between classes, or sets,” he may never have imagined the many uses to which it would […]
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Discipline and Punish Revisited: Teaching Evaluation
by Dennis Selder A wonderful example of Foucault’s observations about how power and knowledge interact is teaching evaluation. Teaching evaluation is a special sort of knowledge that requires a difference in the power relationship among […]
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Path to student loan debt relief for adjuncts just got a little easier–but still a long way to go
By Krista Eliot The U.S. Department of Education has made a very important change to the application form for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, that just made the path to relief from student […]
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Are College Administrators Encouraging Public Disinvestment in Education?
by Dennis Selder It seems paradoxical to suggest that administrators and college presidents may be partly responsible for public disinvestment in higher education when the principal justification for having them around is to secure funds […]
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Maslow a la Adjunct
by Marnie Webster Twitter: @minimuswebster
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Writing Our Own History
by Dennis Selder If you read the seamless articles geared for the select group of community college administrators who portray themselves as “leaders” and “educational innovators” of the community college system, you will find a […]
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Contingent Faculty at Hogwarts
by Dennis Selder While it’s true that Hogwarts is a relatively privileged educational institution in relation to many schools and colleges, Hogwarts too finds it necessary to rely in part on contingent faculty to fill […]
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Instant Office
Like many part-time faculty, you may have had occasion to meet with a student once in a great while. And perhaps during such occasions you felt uncomfortable or awkward speaking openly while eight part-time colleagues […]
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What?
by Dennis Selder On February 6th, the PBS Newshour, ran a show “Is academia suffering from ‘adjunctivitis’? Low-paid adjunct professors struggle to make ends meet.” In it are the familiar cast of characters—the full-timer who […]
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Challenges Contingent Faculty Face in Improving Their Teaching
by Dennis Selder As a newbie teaching nights at Southwestern College, I was lucky to run into a guy named Steve Kowit. We both had three-hour classes on the same nights of the week, […]
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Keith Hoeller has edited an important new book about contingency! Take Note!
Equality for Contingent Faculty: Overcoming the Two-Tier System has just been published. Alex Kudera says, in reviewing the book, “There’s something weird and creepy about a democracy that insists upon universal ‘access’ to higher education and then […]
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Betting on the CPFA
Betting on the CPFA: A Pragmatic Solution to the “Perilous World of the Adjunct Professor” By John Martin, Chair California Part-time Faculty Association Presented May 5, 2017 PAL Conference In a December 2013 edition […]
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Should Full-Time Faculty Be CPFA Members?
The fall of 2013 has delivered a rich assortment of mainstream news stories and academic articles dealing with the tenuous circumstances of part-time faculty in higher education. In San Diego, The Reader published last week, […]
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What Happened to Inspiration from Government?
When I was a kid, I remember the rush I got reading Johnny Tremain. Sure, it’s a great story, but what really grabbed me at the time—made my head want to explode–were the ideas about […]
