My subunit does in fact use adjuncts. The people we hire as adjuncts are people we also hire as FTEs. They teach 5 courses for their FTE, and then 1-2 more as adjuncts. Another department’s chair points out that this amounts to discrimination against my discipline: lower division students in it have to have overworked … More On the adjunct situation
That is a picture from our annual cochon-de-lait. I went there, then came home and read fifty pages of literary history. In the morning I woke up again without having to talk myself into facing the day. Someone told me about these motivational tricks, the idea being to keep them in mind when planning teaching. … More Motivational Tricks
→I woke up and did not even have to talk myself into getting up, so I must be improving. I have had good dreams for two days. I still say I threw my life away. However, I am only teaching three classes and they are all interesting. →This blog gathered together some interesting old posts, … More Le samedi
I should read Blogenspiel more often. Perhaps we all should. Not just on the adjunct “crisis” but on the Adler issue and surely, on more. Easily Distracted also has a good post on the adjunct “crisis.” It is not just new workers vs. artisans, though, I intuit: it is also graduate students against each other, … More Blogenspiel
What I just said on e-mail: Est-ce que j’ai dit oui a cette date et oublié? Je ne m’en souviens pas et je ne trouve rien dans le courriel de l’automne. Parlons cette semaine, à voir s’il y a une solution — je ne veux pas détruire le programme. What it is about: Last spring … More What would you do?
We have 3 research faculty with PhDs and 5 instructors with MAs, and we give 68 regular courses per year. PhDs make on average $50K, and instructors on average $40K, so we have $350K in salary among us. We are all on the machine-run budget, i.e. on hard money lines, not soft money (the adjunct … More What we could do to contribute to solving the “adjunct crisis”
New corrections to both versions of vitae. Application letter and packet; deliver this. One more letter of recommendation. Library. Store, on those bookends. Software appointment for office machine and this one. Jerry. Syllabi: 1, 2, 3. Oil change; computer to Joanna. When I finish these things I might go to town, to the silversmith; I … More Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
Here is my LASA proposal: Race Beyond Exceptionalism Mestizaje is a key justification of cultural exceptionalism in Latin America. As foundational myth it has often served to limit the analysis of race and racisms, in the social sciences as well as the literary field. Is it possible to consider questions of race, or race and … More The Menu
About this: should we rethink the language requirement? Here is why I ask: the options, for action on the “adjunct crisis,” appear to be cutting the number of students allowed to finish graduate programs, so as to reduce the alleged overproduction of Ph.D.s, or making sure people who do the Ph.D. are also trained for … More Should we recast the language requirement?
A book I used used long ago in Spanish 202 is now being used in Spanish 431. It could mean that the quality of our language program has decreased sharply, or that this faculty member is not very demanding. It explains why the students found my Spanish 432 so difficult last year, though. What book … More Too hot for Facebook
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