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Guggenheim Winners

by Chris Cumo

Steve Keister

An abstract sculptor, Guggenheim winner Steve Keister has immersed his art in the geometric shapes of antiquity. While a junior at Temple University's Tyler School of Art, he spent 1969 in Rome, where he reveled in the solemn grandeur of the relics of a once formidable empire.

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10 Years and Counting

by P.D. Lesko

Whenever I hire a new writer, I always make a point of telling the individual that my desire in publishing the Adjunct Advocate is not to simply report on what has happened, but rather to anticipate trends before they become national news. I like to believe I am a forward thinker. The most compelling evidence of this trait has to be that I founded the Adjunct Advocate in 1992. Who, in 1992, was writing about adjunct faculty on a regular basis? Not The Chronicle, LinguaFranca, Academe, or the newspapers of the national academic labor unions, the AFT’s On Campus and the NEA’s Advocate. In 1992, adjunct faculty were higher education’s “dirty little secret.”

I was 31 in 1992. I had no spouse, no kids, no mortgage and no idea what publishing a national magazine was all about. I had a teaching job, which I desperately wanted to leave behind, and this idea that maybe I could publish a magazine for part-timers. I did what I always do in these situations: I read books, newspaper and magazine articles. I read about the proper launch of a 4-color, glossy, national magazine (at a minimum cost of $250,000). I read about media kits, and gorilla marketing. I read about the difference between managing, copy and production editors, and I read about desktop publishing. Then, I jumped--with $5,000, and health insurance thanks to COBRA.

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Part-Time Thoughts Blog

SoCafe's Business Model SoSucks

Posted: August 7th, 2008

Ok, "sucks" is a totally immature way to respond to anything, but geez (insert eye rolling here and that pffffft sound), a company that wants to charge adjuncts $395 for certification in "10 core competencies?" Is that like the Ten Commandments of Adjunct Teaching?

1. I am the Dean your Dean

2. You shall have no other teaching gigs before mine

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Podcast Interviews

Published: 2009-01-27
Adjunct Advocate Cartoonist & Blogger Matt Hall Talks About What Drove Him Out of the Classroom and into Cartooning.
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Published: 2008-11-20
OPSEU Union President Smokey Thomas Talks About Organizing 10,500 Part-timers in Ontario
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Published: 2008-04-24
Wilfred Laurier Faculty Union President Judy Bates Discusses WL's Part-Time Faculty Strike
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Published: 2008-04-24
Much to the Chagrin of NYSUT Union Leaders, SUNY Full-timer Dr. Peter D.G. Brown Advocates on Behalf of His 8000 PT Colleagues.
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Published: 2008-04-24
Libby Smigel and Kip Lornell Talk About Their 7-Year Battle to Organize Their PT Colleagues At George Washington University.
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Published: 2008-01-29
AAUP President Dr. Cary Nelson Discusses How the AAUP Can Simultaneously Support PT Faculty and Call for Drastic Cuts in Their Numbers.
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