Reblog: Punching the Adjunct Time Card [+ a Call to Data!]

…by Irreveranting Professor (gr8 nic on so many levels!) who writes at the Adjunct Project: 

I’ve been inspired by Moneyball! At the time I saw the movie, which was last fall, I was a contingent teaching graduate statistics to counseling students. Right after I saw the movie, I was inspired to use it to help my students see the application of statistics in the “real world,” and even with counseling students using this movie worked!  They learned and were excited! Obviously, I wasn’t paid to take work to the movies or to take the movies to work, but the connections worked for the students. 

With [Josh's] recent blog tying Moneyball to the world of the contingent faculty member, I saw a whole new spin on the movie. 

Irreveranting wants to collect contingent/adjunct professor records, code and process them (anonymity guaranteed) to quantify all our teaching hours. Not only would this confirm shared narratives, informal anecdotes and suspicions but provide real data for advocacy, the kind that can't be blow off as "not counting." Interested in participating? Already have existing logs of your time and tasks? Email: irreverantprofessor@gmail.com

Read the rest of Punching the Adjunct Time Card.

2012 Worst Place to Teach Award Goes To…

The results of Josh's much talked, tweeted, blogged, highered media splashed about crowdsourced spread sheet have arrived. Josh writes...

It’s a landslide! The college with the most entries on the Adjunct Project spreadsheet is the Community College of Vermont with 17 slots.

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The bad news for CCV is every single one of its respondents negatively rated the school. Unlike other colleges on the sheet that have varying descriptions in the Notes column, the Community College of Vermont is all bad. The major critique seems to be directed at the administration on campus, which is frequently described as an “exclusive club.” Judging from the comments, it appears that the administration at CCV is particularly heinous.

...and just where is this booby trap of higher education? You'll have to go to the Adjunct Project to learn which sullied and unspeakable institution is the 2012 Worst Place to Teach Award Goes To…