#adjunct life

[dpyer]

I should be given a baseball bat. And what happens next is everyone else's problem.

[undergradhist]

[spatheandspadix]

Adjunct professors are the peasants of academia and we'll take advantage of all the gleaning at the manor (aka campus) that we possibly can! Got this haul of apples, chestnuts, acorns, spicebush, rosehips, and autumn olives over the weekend.

[jennabnice]

https://gofund.me/fa60d67b

Jenna’s Illness and Summer Bill Help, organized by Jenna Beth Neece

Hi! My name is Jenna Neece. I’m an adjunct at OSU. I have several chronic heal… Jenna Beth Neece needs your support for Jenna’s Illness an

[she-wolf-of-highgarden]

So apparently i did well enough on my pre-election faculty panel that they are going to give me a second class (as long as enough people enroll) in the spring semester. 

[chrysanthemumpink]

When I teach university courses, I try to use accessabile and free resource materials. So this often means using open access texts, worksheets I make myself, and youtube videos.

And I thought it was fine but i’ve student commented that they didn’t like using those kind of resources b/c if they wanted to learn from youtube or google they would not have signed up for a college course. And ngl, I get it. I completely understand. At times it does seem like the material I use comes from easily refrenced sources.

But my only alternative is requiring $50-300 textbooks with access codes. Like sure..we could use materials from Pearson but this video on youtube is free, you will always have access to it, and they can be easily supplemented with in class notes.

I don’t know. I guess the comment really got to me because it made it seem like the lessons wern’t worth it just because they came from youtube

[these-r-the-thoughts]

Professors Are the New Therapists

Untrained adjuncts are being asked to do more and more emotional labor for students.

“This expectation for emotional labor falls disproportionately on women, who are overrepresented among contingent faculty and face well-documented bias in student evaluations—the most important, and in many cases singular, measure of their job performance. Research done by my former teaching center colleagues at Ohio State University indicated that when students evaluate instructors, they react most strongly to two things: how much they feel they learned in the course, and how much they feel their instructors cared about them. And what passes as “caring enough” is affected by implicit biases students may hold.”

[lifeinsherds]

Who let me be in charge of a class?

Super thankful I get to teach a class tomorrow on feminist, gender and queer archaeologies. Super thankful that as an adjunct I was given so much freedom to create my own course material.