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How to Help Adjuncts
Gwendolyn Bradley offers suggestions for administrators or chairs who want to improve working conditions for contingent faculty members.
Making Graduation Rates Matter
No need to wait for a new database of student records, says Clifford Adelman. A few revisions now can produce a fuller and more honest measure of degree completion.
False Impressions
Is burnout a big force, like depression or exhaustion? Or is it an “incremental perturbation,” as John Barth calls drama...
The Elusive 'It'
I’m in my 29th year of community college work -- nearly three decades of completed service and the happy land...
Vietnam, Part 3
My cohort in the Miami MFA was a bit older and more diverse than others. We had among us a...
The Music Industry's 'Spring Offensive'
This afternoon, in a Congressional office building, Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), chairman of the House of Representatives Judiciary Subcommittee on...
From Grub Street to the Ivory Tower (and Back)
Getting from academe to the publishing world isn't easy, but Scott McLemee finds some grad students who just might make it.
Teaching Without Textbooks
They aren't only too expensive, they are boring and your students will learn more without them, writes Rob Weir.