Category: Adjunct Professors
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…
The Cascading Labor Market of Underemployment
| May 2, 2013 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Adjunct Professors, Education, Graduate School, Teaching, Work |
Tomorrow, when the monthly unemployment numbers come out, we’ll learn that the underemployment and unemployment rates remain relatively high. Big surprise there. According to the latest Freakonomics podcast on NPR’s Marketplace, there’s a new theory for why the high unemployment rate persists. Apparently, we’re getting hit with the side effects of a trend that began over a…
The Teacher-Run School: Coming to a City Near You
| April 15, 2013 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Adjunct Professors, Education, Politics, Teaching, Work |
This idea of the “teacher-run school” has been popping up lately and I’m liking it. In our weekly newsletter, #EdFriday, we featured a Pittsburgh educational cooperative that’s bypassing the high cost of learning by reducing wasteful overhead and expensive administrators. And just this morning I read an article about another potential teacher-run school being considered…
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…
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…
Master’s is the new Bachelor’s
| February 28, 2013 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Adjunct Professors, Education, Work |
If everyone knows a secret, it’s not a secret. If everyone holds the same competitive advantage, it’s not a competitive advantage. If everyone has a bachelor’s degree to distinguish them in the job market, it’s not a distinguishment. And that’s a phenomenon economists now call “degree inflation.” Everyone is supposed to go to college these…
Two Big Problems With Graduate Education in the Humanities
| February 21, 2013 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Adjunct Professors, Arts & Humanities, Education, Graduate School, Politics |
“Graduate education in the humanities is in crisis.” Departing MLA President Michael Bérubé and I apparently agree on many things.1 Of course, he’s been in the academy a lot longer than I have, but you don’t have to be an industry veteran to recognize the precarity of graduate education in the humanities. Sure, humanities departments have been saying…
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…
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