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H-Adjunct is an open, inter-disciplinary forum for issues involving adjunct, part-time and temporary faculty at universities, colleges and community colleges. All faculty members, no matter their status, and all interested persons are encouraged to join and contribute.

Here are links to other sites addressing Adjunct and Contingent faculty issues:

The New Faculty Majority

The Adjunct Project (Compare your salary to those listed here)

Coaliton on the Academic Workforce (CAW)

CAW's Portrait of Part-Time Faculty Members

AdjunctNation

 

Recent Content

What Adjuncts Do

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Submitted by Howard Smead on Monday, March 3, 2014
From The Adjunct Project: "Adjuncts contribute so much to their colleges that the status differentiation between adjunct and professor is a distinction I find uncomfortable at best." http://adjunct.chronicle.com/what-adjuncts-do/

Deadline: Congressional Research Grants

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Submitted by Cindy Koeppel on Thursday, February 27, 2014

* GRANTS: CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH GRANTS *

DEADLINE: All proposals must be received no later than March 1, 2014.

The Dirksen Congressional Center invites applications for grants to fund research on congressional leadership and the U.S. Congress. The Center, named for the late Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen, is a private, nonpartisan, nonprofit research and educational organization devoted to the study of Congress. Since 1978, the Congressional Research Grants program has invested more than $915,136 to support over 425 projects. Applications are accepted at any time, but the deadline is March 1 for the annual selections, which are announced in April.

Two articles about the Strike at Illinois

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Submitted by Howard Smead on Friday, February 21, 2014

Here are links to two articles about this week's strike at the University of Illinois for among other things,higher wages for adjuncts.

Time for a Union?

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/02/21/u-illinois-urbana-champaign-faculty-watch-st...

U. of Illinois at Chicago Strike Showed Unusual Support for Contingent Faculty

http://chronicle.com/article/U-of-Illinois-at-Chicago/144905/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_med...

 

Howard Smead

Editor, H-Adjunct

 

STRIKE!!!

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Submitted by Howard Smead on Thursday, February 20, 2014

Give a listen to this NPR report on the faculty strike at the Univ. of Illinois. Of particular interest is the issue of adequate pay for adjuncts, a goal supported by tenured and nontenured faculty alike.

http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=3&islist=true&id=3&d=02-20-2014

Howard SmeadEditor, H-Adjunct

H-Net Job Guide from 27 January 2014 to 3 February 2014

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Submitted by Howard Smead on Saturday, February 8, 2014

The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 27 January 
2014 to  3 February 2014. These job postings are included here based 
on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Adjunct. See the 
H-Net Job Guide website at http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more 
information.


AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY / STUDIES

University of North Alabama - Tenure-Track, Assistant or Associate 
Professor of History
<http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=48388>



AFRICAN HISTORY / STUDIES

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