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>This I won’t forget

>Go read this. And then take an adjunct to lunch.

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>I Told Them So

>I’m trying to leave Oxymoron University behind for good. But I can’t seem to wash my hands of them entirely, because OU people keep contacting me. When I left Oxymoron University, I suggested that...

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>A former adjunct reflects on why he quit

>Oh, this post of Jeason Heath’s says it well–music adjuncts have to teach any college student with a pulse if they want to make a living. He asks if this is ethical. Read this one, too, to see how...

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>My former students deserve better

>I just heard from a former Oxymoron student. The kazoo students are very, very unhappy about studying with Glamour Kazooist. I wrote about Glamour Kazooist a few months ago. She’s nuts. The...

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>Thoughts while ill

>I just realized that this didn’t get posted last month. So here goes. Yes, I’ve been horribly ill. I’ll have to make up a few missed lessons and scramble to make up materials with my classes. I’ll...

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>Some administrators should be flogged

>Contingent employment may be the wave of the academic future, but it’s a grim future indeed.Posted in adjunct hell

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>Is he kidding?

>My previous employer just blogged about the need for a “health care solution that will enable a healthier place for all of God’s children.” Longtime readers of this blog will get the irony: While I...

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>Adjuncting around the blogosphere

>Longtime readers of this blog will know that I spent seven years as an adjunct. This is not at all uncommon in my field, where tenure-track jobs are incredibly rare. (I can count this last year’s...

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>Don’t like it? Simple. Just quit.

>It’s not that simple. To the “if you don’t like being exploited, just quit adjuncting” folks out there, I’d like to ask the following: In the 2+ years it would take to train for a new profession,...

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They’ve got to be kidding.

Remember Oxymoron University? You know, the place where I worked as an adjunct for 5 years without health insurance? The place I’m still waiting to miss? Yeah, that school. Well, my parents and I are...

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