New England Contingents United

‥aka #NECUnited present an #unconference by & for #adjuncts.

❝NECUnited stands for “New England Contingents United.”  It is a yearly unconference: an open, inexpensive meeting where folks interested in higher education and contingent/adjunct workforce issues come together in sessions proposed on the spot. An unconference is to a conference what a seminar is to a lecture, what a party at your house is to a church wedding, what a pick-up game of Ultimate Frisbee is to an NBA game, what a jam band is to a symphony orchestra: it’s more informal and more participatory.❞

Read on to learn more via New England Contingents United

 

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call for #adjunct submissions to ❝Teaching Poor❞ « @LeeKottner

…add your voice to this important “collection of voices from the world of so-called adjunct or contract college instructors who now teach 60-75% of all college courses in the United States and are paid wages equivalent to Walmart workers.”

If you’d like to write for this anthology, query Lee Kottner at teachingpoor@gmail.com (nothing formal, just a note of intent). Here’s the call for submissions document.

via Precarious Faculty, #CFP ❝Teaching Poor❞ Voices of the #AcademicPrecariat

About the Adjunked Professor and Adjunktification

Definitions of and more About adjunktification…implying a modest proposal to adjust spelling and pronunciation to economic and workplace realities

Adjunked & Edploited by the Two Tier System

Adjunked

A Dikshunary or What Lots of Folks Really Think of Adjuncts

adjunked: add . junkt (soft stress on add/hard stress on junk/lightly seasoned by a titillating terminal t)

via The Adjunked Professor’s About