Labor Issues
For Adjuncts Who Take a Role in Contract Talks, Job Protection Is Rare
Adjuncts can come to the bargaining table, speakers at a conference on academic labor said, but doing so can cost them their jobs.
Balancing Act
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Not Taking Time Off
When her husband got sick, a professor could have applied for an emergency family leave. So why didn't she?
- Title IX and Babies: The New Frontier?
- The Future of the Ph.D.
Featured Articles
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We're Not Responsible for How MOOCs Are Used
If MOOCs have the power to dismantle departments, say several professors say who teach the courses, the fault lies with reckless administrators.
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Scholars in Bondage
Academics writing about kink lick the boots of their cultural-studies idols and shackle themselves in jargon.
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Rejection and Its Discontents
A look at the reasons your grant proposal was rejected and what you can do about it.
More on Labor & Work-Life Issues
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Pay Increase for Top Administrators Barely Outpaces Inflation
Their median base pay rose by 2.3 percent last year, an improvement over the previous year, an annual survey found.
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Completion Is New Key to Cash for Tennessee Colleges
All higher-education appropriations are now dependent on institutional outcomes, and faculty say the effects aren't always fair.
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Careers, Interrupted
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The Corporate Education of a Union Organizer
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Denied Tenure, a Professor Burns His Bridges
- Coming Out in Class
- 'A Dismal Picture' of Life as a Part-Time Professor
The Adjunct Track
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10 Ways to Get Yourself Fired
Whatever you do as a non-tenure-track faculty member, don't do any of these things.
- Dodgy Definitions of Merit
- An Adjunct's View
