image Will the Professor be De-professionalized?

Will the Professor be De-professionalized?
Part I of II

by Chris Dorn
April 9th, 2015

It is a commonplace now that the proportion of contingent or “adjunct” faculty to full-time tenured and tenure track faculty teaching in American colleges and universities has increased dramatically in recent decades. According to the U.S. Department of Education, in 1970 only 22.2% of faculty at all higher education institutions was part-time employees, not including graduate assistants. In 2009, 49.3% of faculty was part-time employees. In more recent years movements to unionize have emerged in response to the real abuses to which this trend has given rise. But there is still work to be done. Contingent faculty continue in alarming numbers to teach classes part-time or on limited-term contracts, without permanent appointments, adequate compensation or appropriate professional support. Higher education researchers deplore this casualization of academic labor, which they argue persuasively results in an unstable workforce, impaired academic freedom, and diminished educational quality, among other things.

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image Teach for America: One Day ‘Some’ Children

By Rachel Storey
April 3, 2015

Teach for America (TFA) believes that “one day all children can have access to an excellent education.” The organization believes that through putting highly educated individuals into a teaching position for two years, the education systems in America can fundamentally change. On the surface, the plan seems fantastic. Young motivated people, teaching the youth of America to reach for their dreams, what could possibly go wrong?

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image What Change Agents Can Learn From Prairie Dogs

Happy Franklin Friday. This is the best free scrapbooking class I’ve ever taken! [sniffs hand] Oh, God. I’m going to run this through again on “pots and pans.” We all need to pick a day to try and make trend. It was for me. I was going to smoke the marijuana like a cigarette. And I wouldn’t just lie there, if that’s what you’re thinking. That’s not what I WAS thinking. If I wanted something your thumb touched, I’d eat the inside of your ear.

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image Protected: The Right To Opt Out, But at What Cost?

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image Leaving the School You Love & the Stages of Divorce

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