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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.

excerpt from After The Ivory Tower Falls by Will Bunch

This comes from Delanceyplace.com, which publishes excerpts from recent and not-so-recent books

College as unAmerican ...

Today's selection -- from After The Ivory Tower Falls by Will Bunch. Belief in the value of a university education has been eroding, especially among conservative voters, a change that accelerated starting in 2015: "Wisconsin, more than any other state, captured the zeitgeist of the 2010s in red America, as the simmering discontents of voters from rural areas and small towns that had started with talk radio gripes about 'political correctness' run amok finally boiled over

AI and College Essays

Since many of us are going to be grading exams and essays these days, I thought it would be important for us to read and reflect on this article: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/12/chatgpt-ai-writing-college-student-essays/672371/

What kinds of reasonable and realistic responses can we make to this phenomenon? If an AI can churn out C-grade essays in no time, what is to be done?

Re: Tenured Faculty are the 18% – What Will They Do for the 82?

That percentage is staggering. Do you know more about the details of that data? Is the 18%-82% divide including community colleges and trade schools? Is it only pertaining to four-year degree universities? Do we know if the numbers are changing at all over time?

New School Adjuncts’ Push for Better Pay Drives Acrimonious Strike

As a strike by part-time faculty enters its third week, administrators, faculty and parents battle over the finances and future of an institution known for its left-leaning politics.

(This NYTimes article contains an interview with a New School adjunct on food stamps and Medicaid)

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/06/nyregion/new-school-parsons-strike.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=New%20York