Educators Must Challenge the Politics of Evil
We need to add more complexity to our reasoning and discussion that leaves room for critical thought and action. When we see evildoers (like Hitler or Bowers) as extraordinary, we cannot see ourselves...
View ArticleWhy I’m Voting Against the “Historic” PSC-CUNY Contract for Adjuncts
The contract I will vote against is likely to pass because of a consensus of indifference to changing the conversation around what is “teaching,” and fear of an unknown worse case. No doubt naively, I...
View ArticleGig Professors Need Protection During This Time of Corona Virus
by Christopher Doucet The unprecedented number of Americans suddenly out of work due to the COVID-19 pandemic has imperiled the American economy, revealed the economic precariousness that more than...
View ArticleJumping off the Adjunct and onto the Full-Time Track in the Time of COVID-19
by Andrew M. Abernathy Nearly one year ago, before COVID-19 engulfed us all, something spectacular happened—the long awaited call came. After more than two years of a nationwide job search, I finally...
View ArticleThe “Ad-Junct” Life–Working Toward Contentment
by Sunny Knable, Ph.D. Ad– the prefix meaning “to or toward.” Junct – the root word meaning “to join, meet or link.” Adjunct — the precarious purgatory in which Ph.D.’s linger until they become full-...
View ArticleCrisis? What Crisis?
by Brian Caterino WHILE MORE CIVILIZED pursuits like NFL Football have outlawed the practice of taunting one’s opponent, adjunct faculty and graduate students still have to endure the verbal equivalent...
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