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
Does our academic work exist if nobody sees it? I watch far too many colleagues
spend countless hours building, teaching, researching, and writing with little
to show for it. Or, at least, little
Last year, I experienced two months that were very challenging for me as a
person and as an academic. One of my sons, who was seven, became very ill and
missed a lot
Unfair labor practices are commonplace in American higher education, public and
private. Hardly anyone denies the problem of adjunctificaton and contingency,
and, more epidemic, laborers on the fringe in any trade or profession
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/
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
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The hall of the department is a 1960s-era Bunker, molded of concrete and rebar,
with tall, narrow windows to repel even the most determined activist. I watch my
feet as I
Intellectually rigorous work lives, thrives, and teems proudly outside
conventional notions of academic rigor. Although institutions of higher
education only recognize rigor when it mimics mastery of content, when it
creates a hierarchy
When people hear that I was once a high school English teacher and am now a
college professor, they often ask, “How is college teaching different?” They
expect I’ll say something about
When we think about K-12 and higher education, educators think of them as two
separate entities. Within K-12, we divide it further; primary, junior,
intermediate, and senior. These artificial silos create barriers to
On my first day of work, my supervisor and the assistant director walked me over
to what would be my office for the next two years: it was a hidden office, an
office
