In recent years the long hidden problem of the adjunct faculty has become widely
recognized, as in a series of articles in Hybrid Pedagogy published in 2013 and
a current CFP there, The
“The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in
England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it
would prove a serious danger to the upper classes,
The following post was originally published by Kate Bowles on her blog, Music
for Deckchairs [http://musicfordeckchairs.wordpress.com/2014/07/15/on-on-on/].
It’s an important piece about the nature of academic
Writing the adjunct experience is its own genre now, having emerged from the
duress of countless contingent laborers who are tired of marginalization. We are
academe’s scapegoat. What I want now is
“Our visible invisibility means universities sit in the comfortable position of
never having to justify to parents the ever-increasing cost of a college tuition
coupled with the reality that many of their children’
The ability or inability of a group or culture to progress is in direct
relationship to the proliferation of aphorism within it. General statements of
fact and abbreviations of great wisdom are misleading
We’ve opened this area of the journal —Page Two
[http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/articles/page-two/]— to non-peer-reviewed
articles, editorials, announcements, CFPs, cross-posted articles, and more. Page
Two allows Hybrid Pedagogy room to
I may have created a racist. I am an adjunct instructor at a large, public
university in a rural area of the country. Given the media attention surrounding
the death of Margaret Mary
I am a mother. I am also a PhD in philosophy. And, finally, I am a contingent
college professor at two universities. I am an example of how being a mother in
that
Listen to this chapter here, or subscribe to the entire serialized audiobook
[https://anchor.fm/hybrid-teaching].I never really got tenure as a concept, and
after almost ten years of e-learning I finally
Hybrid Pedagogyrecently announced a call for articles that addressthe problem
of
contingency in higher education
[http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/Journal/files/CFP_Contingency_in_Higher_Education.html]
. The goal is to examine our
On Friday, October 4th, 2013, Hybrid Pedagogy hosted a synchronous#digped
[https://twitter.com/search?q=%23digped&src=typd]conversation on Twitter focused
onPedagogy, Neoliberalism, and Academic Labor
[http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/page-two/
One rarely hears the word “perks” or “advantages” applied to adjunct work — and
with good reason. But despite the often deplorable working conditions of
adjuncts, there can be moments of opportunity. In this
If you’re an adjunct, I have a small but important task for you:
Ask your students what “adjunct professor” means to them. You might hear
something like,It means you don’t
