Category: Activism
Buy Your Very Own Ohio Adjunct!
| May 9, 2013 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Activism, Adjunct Professors, Education, Politics |
You, too, can own your very own adjunct. All you have to do is move to Ohio and become a university administrator. Yes, folks, that’s all it takes and then you’ll be able to trade people like property. Ohio adjuncts live to serve you. They will do anything you tell them. And they cost next…
If This, Then That: The “Quit Your Job” Edition
| April 11, 2013 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Activism, Adjunct Professors, Education, Politics, Work |
If you don’t make enough money to buy groceries and put gas in your car, then quit your job. If your student loan payment is more than a fourth of your monthly income, then quit your job. If you’ve been making the exact same salary for the past decade, then quit your job. If you…
Three Opinions About the Affordable Care Act
| April 4, 2013 | Posted by Hazel M. under Activism, Adjunct Professors, Politics, Work |
I can’t let the Affordable Care Act and its impending effect on adjunct professors go unmentioned here. Everyone is writing about it, so I’m not going to try and rehash the same old stuff. The Chronicle of Higher Education has covered it in detail and over at the Adjunct Project, an accounting professor named Ken Ryesky provided a…
You Must Create the Change That You Want to See
| March 23, 2013 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Activism, Politics |
I want to address the article written this week by Order of Education contributor Hazel M. For one, it was directly addressed at me and the adjunct professors with whom I regularly work. But beyond that, I found a lot of truth in Hazel’s piece and I’d like to pick up where he left off…
Dear Adjuncts: If You Don’t Like it, Change it.
| March 21, 2013 | Posted by Hazel M. under Activism, Adjunct Professors, Education, Politics, Work |
Sometimes I wonder if adjunct professors aren’t just banging their heads against a brick wall. This past year, the adjunct labor battle has been covered at least cursorily by almost every major news outlet in the country, but will anything actually change? My fellow writer at Order of Education, Josh Boldt, has been heavily involved…
DIY U and a New Vision For Higher Education
| February 9, 2013 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Activism, Adjunct Professors, Book Reviews, Education, Teaching, Technology |
I read DIY U in about 24 hours. Anya Kamenetz’s book is only 163 pages, but I don’t think it contains a single skippable sentence. DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education is one of the most interesting and exciting books I’ve picked up in the past year. I grabbed a…
Marsellus Wallace on Higher Education
| January 22, 2013 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Activism, Adjunct Professors, Education, Politics |
Moody’s Investors Service, a company that ranks the creditworthiness of borrowers, has just issued a negative short-term outlook for the entire sector of higher education. Yeah, the entire sector. According to the Moody’s report, “state-government appropriations, investment earnings, gifts, research grants, and patient-care reimbursements are all facing economic pressure.” Which basically means revenue sources for colleges…
MLA 2013 Convention and the Year of the Adjunct
| January 7, 2013 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Activism, Adjunct Professors, Education |
Did you feel it? During the first weekend of 2013, Boston pulsed to the beat of the adjunct. At the MLA 2013 Convention, you couldn’t turn around without hearing about contingent faculty issues in one form or another. It all began on Thursday evening when the convention kicked off with the historic, first-ever all-adjunct presidential…
The Chronicle of Higher Education and the Adjunct Project 2.0
| December 4, 2012 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Activism, Adjunct Professors, Work |
Gather round. I’m leaking some big news today. The Adjunct Project and The Chronicle of Higher Education are about to release a game changer. For the past several months, I’ve been collaborating with The Chronicle on the design of what is essentially Adjunct Project 2.0. And we’re within a few weeks of its release. I…
First-Year Commodity: The Adjunct Professor Labor Crisis in Composition Departments
| October 19, 2012 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Activism, Adjunct Professors, Education |
Yesterday, I spoke at the Thomas R. Watson Conference at the University of Louisville about the use of adjunct professor s in composition departments. It was a pretty big conference with lots of concurrent sessions, so I didn’t have a huge audience, but those who attended were engaged and a good discussion followed the panel,…
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