Urgent request. NBC Nightly News is still interested in covering the Ph.D. Poverty topic, but are shifting their angle. This AM I got this email: "Since we last spoke, I have done some more research and it looks like the percentage of PhDs on food stamps doesn’t really hold that much weight in the grand scheme of things. I want to change the story angle a little bit and just focus on part-time and adjunct professors and the struggles that they endure. I was wondering if I could talk to you on the phone and ask you where I could find some good solid evidence focusing on adjunct professors and their financial troubles and job security."
...confronting precarity in all its social, labor and economic manifestations
Showing posts with label Karen Kelsky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Karen Kelsky. Show all posts
Thursday, May 31, 2012
NBC story to focus on #adjunct profs' struggles
Karen Kelsky ~ #NewFac12 Summiteer, pro-adjunct convert, formerly tenured admin, now deftly consulting on the Byzantine ways of the academic job market ~ just posted this call on The Professor Is In and the open Facebook group, Con Job: Stories of Adjunct and Contingent Faculty
Sunday, January 29, 2012
#newfac12, now to sum it up
So far rave reviews, Not that much out yet from those in actual attendance. Organizers are probably still collapsed in a heap somewhere recovering.
I'm stilling gathering materials, waiting for organizers to report to board and definitely not up for a long post but could not resist the word play. Besides, I should address the subject, throw a figurative mortarboard in the air, hail farewell in passing and sum up however briefly before moving on. Undoubtedly there will still be much to report on and materials to put before you.
Team Digital Footprint held its own Social Media Smackdown ~ Bigfeet every one of them too. And there you thought this was convo not a sporting event.
Brian Croxall logged the most tweets, followed by Karen Kelsky (The Professor is In). Brian overcame early twit-throttling by improvising a GoogleDocs alternative worthy of haystacker or mooc rat
Lee Bessette liveblogged, tweeted and set up an archive for #newfac12 tweets that includes graphic analyses.
New contenders, John A Casey Jr and Josh Boldt (NFM member and chapter organizer), held their own, with Josh earning the distinction of blogging both the first Summit and the first post-summit posts, also cross posted to The-Compost and Facebook
Check out the #newfac12 stream on Twitter and Topsy ... and wait for the next installment...
I'm stilling gathering materials, waiting for organizers to report to board and definitely not up for a long post but could not resist the word play. Besides, I should address the subject, throw a figurative mortarboard in the air, hail farewell in passing and sum up however briefly before moving on. Undoubtedly there will still be much to report on and materials to put before you.
Team Digital Footprint held its own Social Media Smackdown ~ Bigfeet every one of them too. And there you thought this was convo not a sporting event.
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Brian Croxall logged the most tweets, followed by Karen Kelsky (The Professor is In). Brian overcame early twit-throttling by improvising a GoogleDocs alternative worthy of haystacker or mooc rat
Lee Bessette liveblogged, tweeted and set up an archive for #newfac12 tweets that includes graphic analyses.
New contenders, John A Casey Jr and Josh Boldt (NFM member and chapter organizer), held their own, with Josh earning the distinction of blogging both the first Summit and the first post-summit posts, also cross posted to The-Compost and Facebook
Check out the #newfac12 stream on Twitter and Topsy ... and wait for the next installment...
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