TABLE OF CONTENTS
Check out the latest issue of Adjunct Advocate online.
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The AdjunctNation.com Podcast Interview Series. Check out the latest links.
The AdjunctNation.com Blogs. Check out the reader comment of the week.
Check out our foreign language jobs.
The basic principles of motivation.
Learn how to keep your Web searches private.
Our adjunct resource of the week.
From our "Rate Your Students" Message Board.
Good books.
Subscribe to the Adjunct Advocate magazine online.
Manage your subscription to the e-Advocate Newsletter.
ON OUR WEBSITE THIS WEEK
“College of Southern Maryland Give First Part-time Faculty Excellence Award"
Edith Carron doesn’t see the world like most people do. The recent winner of the College of Southern Maryland’s first Part-time Faculty Excellence Award, Carron teaches her students to appreciate the complexity of the truly small things in the world like microbes, bacteria, protists and parasites.
Carron, who has been on the faculty at CSM’s Leonardtown Campus since 2003, teaches microbiology and zoology, but her discussions regarding microbiology are the ones that really engage her students. Carron holds a master of science in microbiology and a doctorate in molecular biology, all from the University of Latvia....
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COMING IN THE ADJUNCT ADVOCATE MAGAZINE
"A Modest Proposal: Burn the Constitution Day"
by Don Rich
Although it is only early June, with September 17 marking the 221th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution, it is not too soon to plan. With the open, repeated and unpunished breaches in the rule of law by the current administration over the last seven years, including illegal search and seizure, perjury, obstruction of justice, violation of various laws of war that are integrated by Article Six into the Constitution, illegally lying to Congress about the grounds for launching said war, harassment of those objecting to the process, and of course the crime of treason for providing aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States by exposing one of its own spies, it is time to acknowledge that the constitutional order has failed, and begin to mark the transition to dictatorship. With apologies for both the length of the second sentence and any unintentionally omitted crimes, we can proceed to the festivities.
As the Constitution was signed in Philadelphia, and a once great newspaper located in said city allowed the Constitution to be destroyed without a peep, the appropriate venue for the event is obvious.
CHECK OUT THE ADJUNCTNATION.COM PODCAST INTERVIEW SERIES
"Dr Brown's Revolt" – an interview with full-time faculty member Dr. Peter Brown, who has worked tirelessly on behalf of the 8000 part-time faculty employed in the SUNY system.
"SEIU Local 500: Eight Years in the Making" – an interview with Kip Lornell and Libby Smigel, both part-time faculty members at George Washington University. They talk about the long road to the organization and recognition of the 1,200 member part-time faculty union.
"Walking the Picket Line Along the Loyalist Highway" – Dr. Judy Bates, President of the Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty Association, in Ontario, Canada, discusses the circumstances surrounding the first-ever strike of WLU's 366 contract faculty.
"AAUP at a Crossroads: An Interview With AAUP President Cary Nelson, Part 1 of 2" – The first order of business for Dr. Cary Nelson is to get himself re-elected. After that, he intends to lead AAUP straight into the skirmish to organize and represent the nation's 700,000 part-time faculty--one campus at a time.
CHECK OUT THE ADJUNCTNATION.COM BLOGS
Here is the comment of the week:
by: Anti-hypocrisy Advocate
On the step-up from adjunct to tenure-track: Most institutions (and I use that word deliberately) prefer the potential faculty member they do not know over the trusted adjunct they do know. Kind of like the Ann Boleyn strategy to capture Henry VIII. If you're "had" before you're on the tenure-line, you're "used" and "usable" and have "no cards to play." Not that it's impossible to get the promotion but institutions usually want to imagine that they have somehow "stolen" the tenure-track candidate from somewhere else, from someone else. It's all like sexual politics. Adjuncts are "in" all right; institutions want lots of them -- and don't intend to make a real commitment unless forced into a shotgun marriage....
Read the original blog entry: "Report from AACC: Adjuncts are in, Sweetie" To comment and join in on the conversation, click here.
TEACHING TIP
Basic principles of motivation exist that are applicable to learning in any situation.To have a look at the general principles of motivation, click here to read more.
HANG 10 ON THE WEB
Wondering how to keep your web searches private? Check out this article published in Computer World about safe web searching.
ADJUNCT RESOURCE OF THE WEEK
Online teaching resources we love: Working Stiff is gone but not forgotten. To check out the PBS show's archived diary entries click here.
To suggest a resource you love, click here.
ADJUNCTNATION JOBS: To view the jobs, follow the links.
Hot Jobs! For Language Jobs. Check out these (and all of the) jobs on our site. It's the largest collection of jobs for part-time, adjunct, full-time temporary, and visiting jobs online:
Foreign Language - Lecturer, University of Scranton.
ADJUNCT FACULTY VACANCY - Spanish Court Interpreter, Community College of Rhode Island.
Adjunct Faculty - Various, Northwestern State University.
Lecturer POOL - French & Italian, University of Kansas.
Adjunct Faculty - Various, Minnesota State University.
FROM THE MESSAGE BOARDS: RATE YOUR STUDENTS
No names, please! Go ahead, we're listening; we've all been there. We understand. Get it off your chest. Let 'em have it with both barrels, and the rest of us will have a good laugh (or cry) right along with you.
Student Feedback on Plagiarism Reaches a New Low
Hi Everyone,
I am just wondering if any other adjuncts have noticed a change in 'acting out' of students related to grades earned and plagiarism.
Student comments, replies, and feedback have reached a new level of 'low' with communications containing nasty comments, profanity and complete dis-respect to me as a university level instructor.
I am finding students using Web sites for term papers and posting work that is from 68% to 99% plagiarized. Yet, when I apply the rules I am cursed by the student for being competent, a poor instructor and other very derogatory comments. Many of the comments use words such as 'hate' and are so vile I will not repeat here.
I noticed a large change in the amount of negative comments from students of a large Online college and university in the Fall of 2007. The college allows students to send these kinds of messages and feedback to instructors.
All I am doing is applying the stated policies related to plagiairsm across the learning environment and doing what I am contracted to do.
However, the situation is what I consider 'abusive' and makes me wonder if the problem is the academic instition's tolerance of this type of behavior or the demographic of students recruited?
Thanks.
To post and comment, click here.
GOOD BOOKS....
Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher, by Joe Berry
$17 per copy. Available here.
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