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The Seven Year Itch
by Kip Lornell It took me the same number of years (seven-and-a-half) to earn a B.S., M.A., and Ph.D. as it did to help organize the part-time faculty The George Washington University and participate...
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Why We Won’t Be Seeing an “Adjunct Spring” Anytime Soon
By Elayne Clift Is there any hope for college adjuncts? It was never my intention to teach when I was in the throes of my career as a health communications and gender specialist. But when I was...
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Professor Procrastination—The Fine Art of Cleaning the Fridge While “Grading”
by Linda Lyle Procrastination is the art of putting off until tomorrow what you don’t want to do today by doing something less distasteful. Usually, people put things off by checking their e-mail or...
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Definition of Crazy? FTer Gives Up Teaching Job For Life As An...
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...
View ArticleAdjuncts Have Fewer Options Than Grad Students at University of Missouri
by Carl Kenney Adjunct professors are often treated like Walmart employees. At Walmart, those pulling the strings are most concerned with making money. Consumers flood the retail giant because of...
View ArticleWhy We Decided To Form An Adjunct Union at Our Community College
by Luke Niebler On my first day teaching at the Community College of Allegheny County in Pittsburgh, I was wracked with the normal anxieties of a new college instructor: What if the students don’t like...
View ArticleWhy I’m Walking Away: Tenured Faculty Pity Adjuncts. But We Can’t Help Them.
by Oliver Lee My grandmother worked in a school cafeteria. My mother taught second grade. Nearly two decades ago, I resolved to enter public education, too, but with plans to rise even higher. I would...
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Higher Ed. is Under Attack from Within by Disaffected Students
by James H. “Smokey” Shott College campuses — once the bastion of diverse opinion, a garden where ideas thrived, where contrary viewpoints were freely expressed — are fast becoming cesspools of...
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A Letter to My Students as I Leave Adjunct Teaching
by Dana Biscotti Myskowski I’ll miss you. If you don’t believe me, ask any of my former students. Or ask my husband who has had to put up with my moping and my bouts of tears these past few weeks as...
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I Teach University Physics, But I’m on Government Assistance
by Andrew Robinson Recently, I had a perfectly reasonable request from a student who wanted to review an exam from last term. I was unable to comply with this request because to do so would be to give...
View ArticleContract Instructing in Ontario—A Personal Perspective
by Andrew Robinson I am a relative newcomer to contract instructing, having moved to Ontario from Saskatchewan in 2010, for family reasons related to health care for my younger son, who is a...
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The Academic Circle of Life & Excellent Usage of Commas
by Laura Yeager There is a great circle of life that occurs at the university. Years ago, when I was in graduate school at Iowa State University, I was studying with Jane Smiley. I had won a...
View ArticleListed Prof. Says: “Professor Watchlist Gets an F for Accuracy”
by Peter Dreier I’m one of the roughly 200 professors listed on the Professor Watchlist, which claims to “expose and document college professors who discriminate against conservative students.” It was...
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Teaching Students How to Dissent is Part of Democracy
As a scholar in the philosophy of education, I would argue that our children, as burgeoning citizens, are entitled to such an education in our schools.This article is only available to subscribers. If...
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Educators Must Challenge the Politics of Evil
We need to add more complexity to our reasoning and discussion that leaves room for critical thought and action. When we see evildoers (like Hitler or Bowers) as extraordinary, we cannot see ourselves...
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Why I’m Voting Against the “Historic” PSC-CUNY Contract for Adjuncts
The contract I will vote against is likely to pass because of a consensus of indifference to changing the conversation around what is “teaching,” and fear of an unknown worse case. No doubt naively, I...
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Gig Professors Need Protection During This Time of Corona Virus
by Christopher Doucet The unprecedented number of Americans suddenly out of work due to the COVID-19 pandemic has imperiled the American economy, revealed the economic precariousness that more than...
View ArticleJumping off the Adjunct and onto the Full-Time Track in the Time of COVID-19
by Andrew M. Abernathy Nearly one year ago, before COVID-19 engulfed us all, something spectacular happened—the long awaited call came. After more than two years of a nationwide job search, I finally...
View ArticleThe “Ad-Junct” Life–Working Toward Contentment
by Sunny Knable, Ph.D. Ad– the prefix meaning “to or toward.” Junct – the root word meaning “to join, meet or link.” Adjunct — the precarious purgatory in which Ph.D.’s linger until they become full-...
View ArticleCrisis? What Crisis?
by Brian Caterino WHILE MORE CIVILIZED pursuits like NFL Football have outlawed the practice of taunting one’s opponent, adjunct faculty and graduate students still have to endure the verbal equivalent...
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