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Adjunct Update is a forum for nontenured faculty to follow articles, learn of support organizations, and share experiences and progress in the highly unfair world of higher education.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Live Chat: Fri noon ET: International Programs Training

http://chronicle.com/article/Live-Chat-Innovators-in/63552/

This Chronical article lists the freely available discussions about the challenges and the training necessary to deal with overseas travel as part of an academic program. If you have been asked to develop a program or shepherd a group overseas, or are interested in going into this end of academia, here is a place to catch up with the conversation.

Monday, February 8, 2010

Adjunct update and organization

In the ridiculously unfair world of academic teaching, this article explains the latest movement toward equalizing the pay, work load, and benefits for those non-tenured faculty.
http://chronicle.com/article/Coalition-Seeks-Better/64054/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

Coalition on the Academic Workforce
http://www.academicworkforce.org/

I believe that higher education is changing beyond the predicted 2 tier system, and that the hubris of the tenure system has become its own downfall.