Marcia Cripps·Sep 5, 2025What I Learned Going from My First to Second Year of Teaching College EntomologyI can’t believe I’m in my second year of teaching with Michigan State University’s IAT program as an entomology professor!
Bruce Caron·Jul 12, 2025Escape from the Planet of the AdjunctsResurrected from the Hastac Blog, which no longer exists, except on the Wayback Machine.
Zeta·Jun 3, 2025Universities Must Stop Hiring Adjunct LecturersI’ve put off writing about this for a long time because I never knew how to approach it. But I feel like I’m reaching a boiling point and I…
Sarah G. Carpenter, Ph.D.·Mar 14, 2025passing the bar on the second tryThere are some tests life makes us take again.
Gia Sparacino·May 13, 2024Pace University Adjunct Compensation Borders Poverty Wages“I’ll forgo sending along my lengthy CV, but in a nutshell, I have taught reading and writing to students from 8 to 80, in public schools…
Educators4Impact·Jan 3, 2024Professors in Poverty: The Struggles of Adjunct FacultyThe adjunctification crisis is but a tiny crack in a web of issues plaguing higher education: attacks on academic freedom, tenure, fundi…
Nicole Cacal·Nov 7, 2023The Overlooked Perks of Being an Adjunct Professor: Part IIAs we continue our exploration into the multifaceted role of adjunct professors, we delve deeper into aspects of the job that go beyond…
Nicole Cacal·Oct 31, 2023The Overlooked Perks of Being an Adjunct Professor: Part IThe adjunct professorship, traditionally seen as a transitional or supplementary role within academia, often exists in the shadows of its…
Nicole Cacal·Oct 24, 2023Beyond Midterms: Crafting Assessments & Mastering FeedbackFor many of us, we just passed the “midterm” line in this marathon of a semester. Well, for some of us, it seems more like a sprint at the…
Nicole Cacal·Oct 17, 2023From Boardroom to Classroom: Unpacking My Teaching EvaluationFrom the corridors of corporate decision-making to the energetic classrooms at the university, my journey has been nothing short of a…
