The New Adjunct: Rate Your Professor – It’s All About Perspective
By Kathy McBrayer, M.Ed., SPHR I am at a unique time in my career as an adjunct professor. Not only am I a new adjunct professor, but I am also the mother of a new college student; my son will be a...
View ArticleNewsflash to the Older Women of the Local College: “You’re a Very Tangible...
by Sandra Keifer I can say this because I’m one of you. Here is a newsflash to the older women of the local college adjunct faculty—you who are supported by engineer husbands and teeter precariously...
View ArticleAdjunct Instructors’ Outlook on Full-Time Employment
by Tami Strang If you’ve been following education news lately, you’ve probably read at least one article that discusses the struggles that many adjunct instructors are having as they seek full-time...
View ArticleAn Adjunct Professor Confesses…
by John Brown [Imaginary dialogue based on Catholic confessions I willingly endured during my Catholic adolescence in the 1960s; doubtless the format/questions/vocabulary have much changed since that...
View ArticleEssential Time Management Tips For Teaching Faculty: The Agenda
by Elizabeth Kuehne After almost two decades as an adjunct, I’ve learned a thing or two about time management. When I first began teaching, I was able to get by with one bag and a canned curriculum...
View Articleteaching college is hard as shit, and students are afraid to be creative.
by Ama McKinley I’m a first semester instructor this fall, guiding 106 students as they learn Human Communication and Graphic Design. Sometimes, this job still feels like i’m being punked. When I was...
View ArticleThe Midwestern Black Professor Teaching MAGA Babies Is Not All Right
“My adjunct teaching job wound up being a lot more than I bargained for.” by Jonita Davis My job in 2017 was to teach Composition I to new college students, showing them how to express themselves...
View ArticleTips for Helping (You and) Your Students Identify and Overcome the Discomfort...
by Kate Whalen COVID-19 catapulted our society on a mass scale into the online environment, and often we weren’t prepared. Many of us were forced to equip ourselves with new skills and tackle new...
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