Published in the January 24, 2014 Santa Maria Times. “History,” said Henry Ford, “is more or less bunk.” Fortunately, Henry Ford was an industrialist, not an educator. But knowledge of history is the basis upon which today’s decisions are made. Our educational system, locally and nationally, needs to spend more time teaching the important lessons […]
Read More →Published in the December 27, 2013 Santa Maria Times. A comment overheard recently — made only partly in jest — asserted that an application for a part-time, or adjunct, faculty position in U.S. higher education today should be accompanied by an application for food stamps. In other words, adjunct faculty can expect to be poor. […]
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Read More →First of all, thanks to everyone that responded. The information you provided will be very helpful. Second, I need to mention that surveys continued to come in after the deadline for the article on this topic that will appear in the Santa Maria Times on November 29, so there may be some small discrepancies in […]
Read More →Read the recent New York Times Sunday Dialogue: Academia’s Two Tracks that contains responses to the question “Are adjuncts better teachers than tenure track faculty?”
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