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• Why Can’t We All Work Together?

  by William Lipkin | 5 July 2014 I became active in the labor movement over 25 years ago at a time when very few people even knew what the word ‘adjunct’ referred to. I immediately […]

  2014-07-06Academic Solidarity, Commentary

   

• Salgamos de las tinieblas en Texas

  Here, Ana M. Fores Tamayo provides a Spanish version of her article, “Out of the Shadows in Texas.” 18 junio de 2014 Nota de los editores: Ana M. Fores Tamayo es una profesora ambulatoria en […]

  2014-06-20Follow the Money, Neoliberalism & Higher Education

   

• Adjunct, Be Not Loud

  With special thanks to John Donne, [“Death Be Not Proud”] For the California Part-time Faculty Association. Adjunct, be not loud, though exploited be Willing and happy, for thou have no place; With those who make […]

  2014-06-10Commentary, Teachers' Rights

   

• Out of the Shadows in Texas

  2 June 2014 Editors Note: Ana M. Fores Tamayo teaches part time in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area of Texas, a state that dwarfs California in size and has quite different education codes. Given both states’ […]

  2014-06-03Academia & Class, Academic Solidarity, Activism in Education, Teachers' Rights

   

• 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 […]

  2014-05-20Academia & Class, Neoliberalism & Higher Education

   

• 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 […]

  2014-05-13California Community Colleges, Community College Decision-Making, Educational Reform, Improving the Learning Environment, Neoliberalism & Higher Education

   

• 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 […]

  2014-05-03Federal Policy

   

• 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 […]

  2014-04-12Commentary, Community College Decision-Making, Public Disinvestment in Education

   

• Maslow a la Adjunct

  by Marnie Webster   Twitter: @minimuswebster

  2014-04-11Academia & Class, Public Disinvestment in Education

   

• 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 […]

  2014-03-11Commentary, Improving the Learning Environment

   

• 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 […]

  2014-03-08Improving the Learning Environment, Neoliberalism & Higher Education

   

• Schadenfruede & Adjuncts

  25 February 2014 by Marnie Webster Much has been written about the working conditions of part time professors for good reason: they stink. The more we talk openly about the academy’s hypocritical two tier system, […]

  2014-03-01Academia & Class, Academic Solidarity

   

• 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 […]

  2014-02-20Community College Decision-Making

   

• 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 […]

  2014-02-08Commentary, Follow the Money, Neoliberalism & Higher Education

   

• 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, […]

  2014-01-30Educational Reform, Improving the Learning Environment