Download or read book The Adjunct Underclass written by Herb Childress and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Class ends. Students pack up and head back to their dorms. The professor, meanwhile, goes to her car . . . to catch a little sleep, and then eat a cheeseburger in her lap before driving across the city to a different university to teach another, wholly different class. All for a paycheck that, once prep and grading are factored in, barely reaches minimum wage. Welcome to the life of the mind in the gig economy. Over the past few decades, the job of college professor has been utterly transformed—for the worse. America’s colleges and universities were designed to serve students and create knowledge through the teaching, research, and stability that come with the longevity of tenured faculty, but higher education today is dominated by adjuncts. In 1975, only thirty percent of faculty held temporary or part-time positions. By 2011, as universities faced both a decrease in public support and ballooning administrative costs, that number topped fifty percent. Now, some surveys suggest that as many as seventy percent of American professors are working course-to-course, with few benefits, little to no security, and extremely low pay. In The Adjunct Underclass, Herb Childress draws on his own firsthand experience and that of other adjuncts to tell the story of how higher education reached this sorry state. Pinpointing numerous forces within and beyond higher ed that have driven this shift, he shows us the damage wrought by contingency, not only on the adjunct faculty themselves, but also on students, the permanent faculty and administration, and the nation. How can we say that we value higher education when we treat educators like desperate day laborers? Measured but passionate, rooted in facts but sure to shock, The Adjunct Underclass reveals the conflicting values, strangled resources, and competing goals that have fundamentally changed our idea of what college should be. This book is a call to arms for anyone who believes that strong colleges are vital to society.

Download or read book The Adjunct Study Guide written by Danny G. Langdon and published by Educational Technology. This book was released on 1978 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Adjunct Faculty in Community Colleges written by Desna L. Wallin and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2005-01-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The employment of adjunct faculty is often what allows community colleges to offer excellent yet affordable education; however, this group is often deprived of the professional development and basic amenities enjoyed by their full-time colleagues. Academic administrators are those charged with hiring and supervising adjunct faculty, and this book provides them with examples of successful programs that highlight the important connection between teaching quality and effective hiring, orientation, acculturation, and professional development practices for their constituency. These models come from community and technical colleges across the United States and can be implemented into any two-year system. Through the use of research, case studies, and hands-on how-to guides, checklists, and samples, this volume’s expert contributors explain how to understand part-time faculty— how to motivate them and value them as members of the academy. They go on to offer practical advice for recruiting, integrating, supporting, and retaining these great teachers.

Download or read book The Adjunct Professor s Guide to Success written by Richard E. Lyons and published by Pearson. This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A toolkit of teaching and classroom management ideas for adjunct professors. The book provides invaluable aids such as an orientation checklist, model course syllabi, exam construction exercises, and related tools which enable the adjunct professor to be successful in their very first teaching assignment.

Download or read book Becoming a New Instructor written by Erika Falk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming a New Instructor guides new instructors through the planning, preparation, and execution of their first class, whether it is in person or online. Like any good mentor, this book provides clear, simple instructions and makes best-practice recommendations. Becoming a New Instructor provides a step-by-step guide to writing a syllabus, a simple explanation for how to calculate grades, and many additional suggestions from an experienced teacher about how to run a class. Chronologically arranged from conceptualizing the class through putting together the syllabus, planning in-class time, running the class, and assigning grades, this book will answer any new instructors’ questions. Adjuncts and graduate students charged with teaching a college course will find this succinct guide invaluable. Special Features Include: An entire chapter on teaching online, plus "Concerns Specific to Online Instructors" throughout that connect chapter content to online teaching and CMS platforms Examples of best practice, checklists, sample assignments, syllabi, and rubrics that guide readers in creating materials for their own courses Guidance specific to the needs of adjuncts and graduate students teaching a course for the first time.

Download or read book Success Strategies for Adjunct Faculty written by Richard E. Lyons and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyons is a senior consultant with a firm helping universities, colleges and instructional departments to improve their accountability outcomes, and is the co-author of an earlier work for aspiring and newly appointed part- time instructors, The Adjunct Professor's Guide to Success (Allyn and Bacon, 1999). His newest work builds on the previous text, but shifts the focus to experienced adjuncts wanting to improve their teaching effectiveness and course management efficiency. The text also includes brief testimonials from successful American adjunct professors and a new chapter on incorporating technology into one's teaching. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Download or read book The Adjunct Professor s Complete Guide to Teaching College written by Anthony D. Fredericks and published by . This book was released on 2023-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are more than 700,000 adjunct professors in over 4,200 institutions of higher education. Many lack a practical resource and formal pedagogical training on how to teach and evaluate college students. With that information they can have the confidence and training that they can be effective instructorsno matter their discipline or experience. The Adjunct Professors Complete Guide to Teaching College provides an illuminating look into collegiate instruction, how to actively engage students and the proven techniques that enhance learning. This book is for everyone who has ever wanted to teach a college course, but were unsure of where and how to start.

Download or read book Interactive Instructional Designs for Individualized Learning written by Danny G. Langdon and published by Educational Technology. This book was released on 1972 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Teaching Law by Design for Adjuncts written by Sophie Sparrow and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides concrete suggestions for adjunct professors about how to design and conduct all aspects of teaching law students, based on the enormous body of research on teaching and learning to legal education. New and experienced adjuncts can apply the book's principles from sequencing a course to grading an exam. Updated and revised chapters provide a legal education-focused overview of the research on teaching and learning, students' perspective on law teaching and learning, course design, class design, student motivation, teaching methods, assessment, and professional development as teachers. New chapters focus on experiential learning, lasting learning, and troubleshooting.

Download or read book The Essentials of College Teaching written by Constance Jones and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are a number of books focused on the craft of college-level teaching. However, the vast majority of those books are tailored to tenure-track faculty. A number of specialty books also have been published, including texts on balancing teaching and research, techniques for teaching certain types of students (e.g., first-generation), and techniques for teaching for certain types of instructors (e.g., African-American women). Online resources are available, but locating material can be time-consuming. The target audience for The Essentials of College Teaching: A Guide for New and Adjunct College Instructors are adjunct (non tenure-track) instructors. Adjuncts now constitute 76.4 % of U.S. faculty across all institutional types, with a staggering 80% at two-year institutions. Although teaching a heavy load, adjuncts are not typically included in on-campus professional development opportunities to improve their teaching skills. This book would be particularly helpful for first time or relatively novice college-level instructors, including doctoral graduate students teaching their first sections, new community college instructors, and new four-year college and university instructors. It's designed to get novice instructors through their first term, nerves intact and students satisfied. Recommendations are based on empirically supported best practices for teaching, while aiming for a concise, slightly irreverent, occasionally humorous style of writing.

Download or read book The Professor Is In written by Karen Kelsky and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their Ph.D. into their ideal job Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their Ph.D. And each year only a small percentage of them will land a job that justifies and rewards their investment. For every comfortably tenured professor or well-paid former academic, there are countless underpaid and overworked adjuncts, and many more who simply give up in frustration. Those who do make it share an important asset that separates them from the pack: they have a plan. They understand exactly what they need to do to set themselves up for success. They know what really moves the needle in academic job searches, how to avoid the all-too-common mistakes that sink so many of their peers, and how to decide when to point their Ph.D. toward other, non-academic options. Karen Kelsky has made it her mission to help readers join the select few who get the most out of their Ph.D. As a former tenured professor and department head who oversaw numerous academic job searches, she knows from experience exactly what gets an academic applicant a job. And as the creator of the popular and widely respected advice site The Professor is In, she has helped countless Ph.D.’s turn themselves into stronger applicants and land their dream careers. Now, for the first time ever, Karen has poured all her best advice into a single handy guide that addresses the most important issues facing any Ph.D., including: -When, where, and what to publish -Writing a foolproof grant application -Cultivating references and crafting the perfect CV -Acing the job talk and campus interview -Avoiding the adjunct trap -Making the leap to nonacademic work, when the time is right The Professor Is In addresses all of these issues, and many more.

Download or read book The Adjunct Faculty Handbook written by Virginia Bianco-Mathis and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1996-06-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colleges and universities thoughout the world are relying increasingly on part-time and adjunct faculty to meet teaching needs. Complete with checklists, sample syllabi, evaluation forms and case studies, this handbook provides administrators and full- and part-time faculty with a much-needed, practical resource for helping adjuncts teach as effectively as possible. Topics covered include: course planning, teaching strategies, cooperative learning, student evaluation and professional development.

Download or read book The Adjunct Faculty Handbook written by Lorri E. Cooper and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2010-05-26 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the First Edition "The book is very comprehensive. It gives plenty of practical examples and also refers to teaching and learning theory."—Martin Lightfoot in Management & Education "This Handbook contains advice and approaches for teaching practices that both new and seasoned faculty can employ to revisit and revitalize what goes on in their classrooms."—Margaret E. Holt, University of Georgia Since the First Edition of The Adjunct Faculty Handbook was published in 1996, the number of adjunct faculty members in colleges and universities has increased to the point that most of those institutions could not function efficiently without them. This Second Edition addresses changes in today's higher education environment and their impact on the role of adjunct instructors. At a time when many adjuncts may be given little more than a start date, room number, and brief course description to prepare them for teaching a course, the Handbook provides administrators as well as part- and full-time faculty members with the resources they need to empower adjunct staff. Key Features Provides important tools for adjunct instructors, including handy checklists, sample syllabi, evaluation forms, and case studies Offers a full chapter on the role of technology in teaching and learning, plus another on future trends, including network technologies Covers the increased emphasis on student evaluations and learning outcomes assessment as well as changes in classroom dynamics and what these mean for today's adjunct faculty Addresses both theory and skill, covering topics such as course planning, teaching strategies, theories of learning, cooperative learning, student evaluations, Web 2.0, professional development, and more Includes practical advice for designing policies for adjunct programs and for evaluating adjunct instructors, who comprise more than two-thirds of the college instructors in the United States today

Download or read book Professors Guide TM to Getting Good Grades in College written by Dr. Lynn F. Jacobs and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Professors' Guide to Getting Good Grades in College is the first book to reveal the insider secrets about how professors really grade. The book offers high-value, practical tips about how to succeed at each of the five "grade-bearing" moments of the semester: (1) The Start (2) The Class (3) The Exam (4) The Paper and (5) The Last Month of the Semester. Fast-paced, entertaining, and easy-to-follow, the Professors' Guide will help you get truly excellent grades in college.

Download or read book The Adjunct s Survival Guide written by Lee Tasey and published by Booklocker.com. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ah, the life of an adjunct professor. Over 65 percent of college faculty are part-timers. And the number is growing. With a heavy teaching load, no job security, and a barely livable wage, how does an adjunct survive? This book shows you how. Written in a fun and engaging style, career adjunct Lee Tasey takes you on a journey through Adjunctville, showing you survival techniques for both on and off campus.

Download or read book The PhDictionary written by Herb Childress and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navigating academia can seem like a voyage through a foreign land: strange cultural rules dictate everyday interactions, new vocabulary awaits at every turn, and the feeling of being an outsider is unshakable. For students considering doctoral programs and doctoral students considering faculty life, The PhDictionary is a lighthearted companion that illuminates the often opaque customs of academic life. With more than two decades as a doctoral student, college teacher, and administrator, Herb Childress has tripped over almost every possible misunderstood term, run up against every arcane practice, and developed strategies to deal with them all. He combines current data and personal stories into memorable definitions of 150 key phrases and concepts graduate students will need to know (or pretend to know) as they navigate their academic careers. From ABD to white paper—and with buyout, FERPA, gray literature, and soft money in between—each entry contains a helpful definition and plenty of relevant advice. Wry and knowledgeable, Childress is the perfect guide for anyone hoping to scale the ivory tower.

Download or read book Wiley CPAexcel Exam Review April 2017 Study Guide written by Wiley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 1324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wiley CPAexcel Study Guide: Financial Accounting and Reporting arms CPA test-takers with detailed text and skill-building problems to help identify, focus on, and master the specific topics that may need additional reinforcement to pass the FAR section of the CPA Exam. This essential study guide: Covers the complete AICPA content blueprint in FAR Explains every topic tested with 1,299 pages of study text, 752 multiple-choice questions, and 73 task-based simulations in FAR Organized in Bite-Sized Lesson format with 217 lessons in FAR Maps perfectly to the Wiley CPAexcel online course; may be used to complement the course or as a stand-alone study tool