Adjunct Project http://www.adjunctproject.com Sat, 11 May 2013 19:31:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Graduate Programs Facilitate the Adjunct Problem http://www.adjunctproject.com/graduate-programs-facilitate-the-adjunct-problem/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=graduate-programs-facilitate-the-adjunct-problem http://www.adjunctproject.com/graduate-programs-facilitate-the-adjunct-problem/#comments Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:56:35 +0000 Adjunct Project http://www.adjunctproject.com/?p=6647 by Quitter Formerly of Del Mar College A large portion of the problems with adjuncts is due to supply and demand, right? This leads me to believe that graduate programs are one of the largest obstacles to stopping the insanity in academia. If each graduate program were to further limit the number of graduate students [...]

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]]> http://www.adjunctproject.com/graduate-programs-facilitate-the-adjunct-problem/feed/ 14 Shared Responsibility for Employers Regarding Health Coverage http://www.adjunctproject.com/shared-responsibility-for-employers-regarding-health-coverage/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=shared-responsibility-for-employers-regarding-health-coverage http://www.adjunctproject.com/shared-responsibility-for-employers-regarding-health-coverage/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:50:20 +0000 Adjunct Project http://www.adjunctproject.com/?p=6433 Editor’s note: Following is an explanation of the Shared Responsibility for Employers Regarding Health Coverage provision and hearing. This concerns all adjuncts and many other non-full-time employees who could be affected by loopholes in the Affordable Care Act. If you can attend the hearing, please do. Thanks to Accounting Adjunct Assistant Professor Ken Ryesky for compiling [...]

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]]> http://www.adjunctproject.com/shared-responsibility-for-employers-regarding-health-coverage/feed/ 10 Questions About Adjuncting at a New School http://www.adjunctproject.com/questions-about-adjuncting-at-a-new-school/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=questions-about-adjuncting-at-a-new-school http://www.adjunctproject.com/questions-about-adjuncting-at-a-new-school/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:23:30 +0000 Adjunct Project http://www.adjunctproject.com/?p=6246 by Adjunct at a New School I’m starting adjunct work with a new institution this semester, and looking back over other adjunct experiences, it’s always been the “unknown unknowns” (to quote Rumsfeld) that trip me up as I’m getting started somewhere. The new school just sent me a “survival packet” that purports to answer all [...]

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]]> http://www.adjunctproject.com/questions-about-adjuncting-at-a-new-school/feed/ 4 Advice From a Quitter http://www.adjunctproject.com/advice-from-a-quitter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=advice-from-a-quitter http://www.adjunctproject.com/advice-from-a-quitter/#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:33:52 +0000 Adjunct Project http://www.adjunctproject.com/?p=5987 by Quitter I was an English teacher for 20 years. I loved teaching. I did my time as a graduate assistant and adjunct before moving for a full time job. Moving never worked well for me because my son was asthmatic and became ill everywhere else we moved, so I returned to Corpus Christi where [...]

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]]> http://www.adjunctproject.com/advice-from-a-quitter/feed/ 20 Quit! http://www.adjunctproject.com/quit/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=quit http://www.adjunctproject.com/quit/#comments Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:28:48 +0000 Adjunct Project http://www.adjunctproject.com/?p=5776 by L. S. Powers I’ll try to keep this short, but I’m afraid it may cause a great deal of hard feelings among the readership here. First, a little background. I have a PhD in history and taught as an adjunct for six years at the university and community college levels. So what I’m going [...]

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]]> http://www.adjunctproject.com/quit/feed/ 36 Austerity Education and Adjuncts http://www.adjunctproject.com/austerity-education-and-adjuncts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=austerity-education-and-adjuncts http://www.adjunctproject.com/austerity-education-and-adjuncts/#comments Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:17:42 +0000 Adjunct Project http://www.adjunctproject.com/?p=5568   This comic was originally created by Brian Pickett and Ethan Heitner for Free CUNY. Do any of you talk to students about your working conditions? Many of us put on a smile every day in class, but it might be a good idea to keep our students informed, particularly when it comes to “austerity [...]

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]]> http://www.adjunctproject.com/austerity-education-and-adjuncts/feed/ 19 The Absent Adjunct http://www.adjunctproject.com/the-absent-adjunct/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-absent-adjunct http://www.adjunctproject.com/the-absent-adjunct/#comments Mon, 21 Jan 2013 23:09:07 +0000 Adjunct Project http://www.adjunctproject.com/?p=5386 by Brandon Hensley Illinois State University Author note: Portions of this piece were originally presented at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, May 19, 2012. This story starts with an admission. I, as an adjunct instructor, am privileged. I carry with me whiteness and routinized performances of a hegemonic masculine identity. [...]

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]]> http://www.adjunctproject.com/the-absent-adjunct/feed/ 9 Unintended Consequences of the Affordable Care Act http://www.adjunctproject.com/unintended-consequences-of-the-affordable-care-act/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=unintended-consequences-of-the-affordable-care-act http://www.adjunctproject.com/unintended-consequences-of-the-affordable-care-act/#comments Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:52:07 +0000 Adjunct Project http://www.adjunctproject.com/?p=4968 by Bill Lipkin I would never have dreamed that the Affordable Healthcare Act (Obama care) would cause a hardship on adjuncts and other contingent faculty. This is supposed to help those who cannot afford health care get some basic coverage. But the “unintended consequences” of this Act can be very detrimental to us. Yes, adjuncts [...]

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]]> http://www.adjunctproject.com/unintended-consequences-of-the-affordable-care-act/feed/ 8 Bureaucratic Waste and Oligarchic Arrogance http://www.adjunctproject.com/bureaucratic-waste-and-oligarchic-arrogance/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bureaucratic-waste-and-oligarchic-arrogance http://www.adjunctproject.com/bureaucratic-waste-and-oligarchic-arrogance/#comments Wed, 02 Jan 2013 14:18:46 +0000 Adjunct Project http://www.adjunctproject.com/?p=4821 by Migrant Intellectual University of Disaster / N1 Academy Dearest colleagues, The “hit” is on; the focus is bureaucratic waste, oligarchic arrogance, and sabbotage of successful programs that reach out to traditional and non traditional students. Another narrative is emerging in the new year. In other words, hybrid groups of activists are working to create [...]

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]]> http://www.adjunctproject.com/bureaucratic-waste-and-oligarchic-arrogance/feed/ 1 New Year, New Website, New Victories http://www.adjunctproject.com/new-year-new-website-new-victories/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-year-new-website-new-victories http://www.adjunctproject.com/new-year-new-website-new-victories/#comments Mon, 31 Dec 2012 23:15:16 +0000 Adjunct Project http://www.adjunctproject.com/?p=4783 by Josh Boldt Just wanted to send a quick note out to let everyone know the next time you visit the Adjunct Project, it might look completely different. With the help of The Chronicle of Higher Education, we’ll be rolling out Adjunct Project 2.0 for the new year. We can now sort the data by [...]

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