(The problem with being #ContingentFaculty is that you are technically not required to do many of the things that #TenuredFaculty do. But if you have any hopes of securing a more permanent position, you have to continue building your CV with stuff that is, well, the stuff required of tenured folks.)
It's easy to get bored with courses you teach a lot. The same material, same assignments, and same examples make it hard to stay motivated.
On our blog, Tala Khanmalek shares how you can refresh your "bread and butter" courses to avoid burnout.
https://ideasonfire.net/refreshing-your-courses/
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Academic workers deserve livable wages and fair working conditions, including multi-year contracts #Union #UnionStrong #Labor #Academia #AcademicWorkers #AcademicChatter #Adjuncts #ContingentFaculty #OneYearisNotaCareer #UCWArizona #CWA
Read: https://kjzz.org/content/1833192/asu-ua-workers-petition-schools-thriving-wages-better-job-security
Support: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/ucwaz-contingentfacultycampaign
A union of workers at Arizona State University and University of Arizona is petitioning the schools to pay all campus workers at least $25 an hour by 2025. But for many contingent faculty members, the fight is about more than bigger paychecks.Contingent faculty members are hired to teach at universities on a short-term contract. Those teaching full time can receive benefits, but they are not eligible for tenure. Nataly Reed is a senior lecturer at UA.
So did I just conclude a fellowship application by saying "listen, I know I don't have as many publications as I should at this point in my career, but if you pay me to do nothing but write and I don't have to teach first and write second, I'll get more published"?
Why yes, yes I did.
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The fun thing about being contingent faculty (career-track, lecturers, professors of teaching, whatever we're calling ourselves these days) is that we find out last minute what classes we're teaching.
Tenured profs around this time of year are like ah, yes, finalizing my reading list for my spring seminar, and I'm like I don't know what I'm teaching, where I'm teaching, or when I'm teaching!
I actually found out this week, which isn't too late for us, but it's not the course I thought I'd be teaching and had started to plan. 🤷♀️
It is a fun course I enjoy teaching, so I'll figure it out!
New School contingent faculty are on strike and The Illuminator project joined them on the picket line. What, indeed, would James Baldwin do?
#Baldwin #newschoool #ContingentFaculty #adjuncts #academicmastodon
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