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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:

Facebook Groups: OAH CPACE. (Organization of American Historians, Committee on Part-time Adjunct and Contingent Employment)

The Adjunct Commuter Weekly An online magazine for Adjuncts

Organization of American Historians Statement on Collective Bargaining and Part-Time, Adjunct, and Contingent History Faculty

The New Faculty Majority

COCAL (Coalition of Contingent Academic Labor)

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

Process A Blog by the Organization of American Historians often on issues relevant to Adjunct Faculty.

They’ve Been Scheming to Cut Tenure for Years. It’s Happening.

from The Chronicle of Higher Education ... (Article is behind a paywall.)

They’ve Been Scheming to Cut Tenure for Years. It’s Happening. We’re in the execution phase of the profession’s demise.

Tenure-line, NTLFT, adjuncts: These are the three estates of modern academe. They have been skillfully positioned by their overlords to check, balance, and often immiserate one another. Though as we shall see, external pressures alone don’t explain why we are divided and conquered.

As we enter the Execution Phase (2020-50) of the American professoriate’s reconfiguration, I hazard a few predictions. First

AI Generative Tool Usage Policies in Syllabi

Hi all,

I know a lot of folks are trying to figure out where AI generative tools (ChatGPT, MidJourney, Dall-E, etc) fit in their courses (or don't) and I know many schools haven't provided any guidance as we start another semester.

So I thought I'd start to collect syllabi policy/guidelines that folks are using this semester around AI-Generative tools. If you have one that you've created for your courses, please feel free to submit it here. I'll then add it to this document so we can all see the different policies and learn from one another or get ideas to build upon.

Good tidings,
Lance

Lance

A Lecturer Showed a Painting of the Prophet Muhammad. She Lost Her Job.

Make no mistake about this, Dr. Lopez Prater lost her position because she was an adjunct, without job protection. The administration claims she wasn't fired. She simply wasn't re-hired for the next semester. Does one need a better example of "the Precarity"? She wasn't afforded the luxury of the necessary and thorough-going discussion of academic freedom that the incident that led to her dismissal requires -- within the academic community. She was on the outside looking in.

"Erika López Prater, an adjunct professor at Hamline University, said she knew many Muslims have deeply held religious

Re: AI and College Essays

Don't get mad; get creative. An AI can only produce content if it has information in its dataset. The answer is to create assignments that specifically reference course content, put unique information together in new and interesting ways, and make use of third-party (hopefully free and accessible) tech tools to make creative projects. An AI can turn out a passable essay on Moby-Dick since there are many examples to choose from. However, it might be stymied by asking it to compare motifs of nature in Melville to the Hudson Valley School of painting vis-a-vis the aesthetics of Romanticism as