Adjunct Symposiums in Next Week in LA and Boston. Next week will be a big week for the Adjunct Action campaign, as adjuncts on both coasts gather to strategize about organizing efforts occurring at colleges and universities in Boston and Los Angeles. On Friday, November 1, contingent faculty from across Boston will gather at at the Boston Central Library to discuss the next steps for the organizing efforts there. In September, Tufts adjunct faculty voted to form a union, and this week, adjuncts at Lesley University filed for a union election. Ellen Schrecker, from Yeshiva University and NYU, is scheduled to speak, as is Anne Johnson, the director of Generation Progress at the Center for American Progress. The first Adjunct Action symposium was held in Boston in April. Click here to RSVP to the Boston Symposium.
Un-Hired Ed: The Growing Adjunct Crisis. Share this infographic on your site!
<a href=" src=" alt="Un-Hired Ed: The Growing Adjunct Crisis" width="500" border="0" /></a><br />Source: <a href=" Embed this infographic on your site! How our best and brightest can work tirelessly for 8 years only to receive food stamps, debt, and no career. Tenure track professor ($120,000 avg) vs.Adjunct 'professor' ($20,000 avg.)Only one out of ten PhD's get the job they studied 8.2 years on avg. for With 140,000 doctorates awarded last year [4]And only 16,000 new professorship openings listed.Leaving adjunct positions to swell to %76 of college faculties[10] Your chances by subject have declined English: -%41.4Math: -%40Sociology: -%35Political Science: -%39 Your wages have declined From $53 an hour To an avg of$8.90 an hour[For 20k/56/40 and 120k/56/40] And that's the best possible scenario.
Essay on report comparing student learning from instructors on and off the tenure track. The National Bureau of Economic Research this month issued a working paper containing a preliminary report on a study of the learning outcomes of students in courses taken during their first term at Northwestern University.
The study considers an impressively large sample, "15,662 students taking 56,599 first-quarter classes" and, its authors claim, offers clear statistical evidence that the students learned more in courses taught by non-tenure-track faculty members than in courses taught by tenured and tenure-track professors. Not surprisingly, the study received extensive coverage in higher education publications like Inside Higher Ed and The Chronicle of Higher Education, as well as attention from the mainstream media.
Unfortunately, that coverage tended to misrepresent the study’s findings by claiming it shows either that "adjuncts are better teachers" or that "tenured faculty are worse. " Adjuncts Should Do As Little Work As Possible. By Marni I was talking to my brother-in-law one day.
He is a tenured professor and has been one for over 30 years. Could Grad Students Regain Union Rights? Some Hopeful Signs. Tuesday, Oct 15, 2013, 4:20 pm BY Rebecca Burns.
CFP: The Problem of Contingency in Higher Education. October 08, 2013 | Filed in: CFP by Sean Michael Morris, Jesse Stommel, and Robin Wharton The case of Margaret Mary Vojtko made much more public a conversation that’s been heating up in academe. Vojtko, an adjunct professor at Duquesne University, passed away at 83, shortly after the university didn’t renew her teaching contract.
Though Defiant, Senator Accused of Plagiarism Admits Errors. The Part-Time Ph.D. Student - Advice. By Leonard Cassuto My department recently graduated two Ph.D.'s of rather, ahem, mature vintage.
Kristina Harvey entered our Ph.D. program with an M.A. in hand 10 years ago. Jacqueline Grindrod spent four years as a master's student and 12 more in the Ph.D. program before her successful defense. Two more disgraceful examples of grotesquely elongated time to degree? Not exactly. Part-time graduate students in the humanities and related fields used to be a common sight on the U.S. educational landscape. That is a historic change. My department's graduate program followed the national trend in its shift to an exclusively full-time model. Essay on report comparing student learning from instructors on and off the tenure track.
I-Team: As Tuition Costs Rise, Public Teachers Don't Earn More. At Lehman College in the Bronx, like campuses across the country, students have to sacrifice just to afford yearly tuition hikes.
This year, junior Michael Bell swore off paying for the subway, just so he could pay for his credits as tuition went up more than $300. "I actually had to stop taking public transportation. The Corporatization of Higher Education. The Corporatization of Higher Education Photo by origamidon, 2010, via Flickr creative commons In 2003, only two colleges charged more than $40,000 a year for tuition, fees, room, and board.
Six years later more than two hundred colleges charged that amount. Top 10 Reasons Being a University Professor is a Stressful Job. College Professors Have Least Stressful Job In America, CareerCast.com Says. College professors have the least stressful job in America, beating out seamstresses, according to a new ranking from CareerCast.com, and it's causing a lot of outrage online.
As more high school graduates enter universities, the Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts professors to be an occupation that will only become more in demand. CareerCast.com noted some of the top ranked universities in the U.S. pay their full-time professors a hefty salary, though an advanced degree is usually required: Harvard University pays full-time professors $198,400, with a 7:1 professor-to-student ratio, while University of Chicago professors receive $197,800 per year with a 6:1 ratio. Among public universities, the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) is highest paying, with an average wage of $162,600 for its full-time staff. The Least Stressful Jobs Of 2013. Why American Students Can't Write. In "The Writing Revolution," Peg Tyre traces the problems at one troubled New York high school to a simple fact: The students couldn't write coherent sentences.
In 2009 New Dorp High made a radical change. Instead of trying to engage students through memoir exercises and creative assignments, the school required them to write expository essays and learn the fundamentals of grammar. Within two years, the school's pass rates for the English Regents test and the global-history exam were soaring. The school's drop-out rate — 40 percent in 2006 — has fallen to 20 percent.
The experiment suggests that the trend toward teaching creative writing was hurting American students. Reuters. Sacrifices and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies in Academic Careers. By the time my third week of sitting on the floor came around, a simple realization had begun to torment me: It’s all come true.
Education & cultural capital. Khanh Ho: Professor Wang Ping: Keynote Poet for Groundbreaking Conference at UC Berkeley. Adjuncts. Faulty Towers: The Crisis in Higher Education. Thinking About Grad School*? Don’t Go! Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don't Go - Advice. By Thomas H. Benton. CUNY Petraeus.