Ask the Adjunct – Campus News

July 8, 2022

Colleges: It’s time to upgrade the adjuncts

By Darren Johnson Campus News There have been some articles of late about The Great Resignation affecting full-time faculty members, and a very popular…

May 30, 2022

THE ADJUNCT COLUMN: The Cars We Drive, the Miles We Carry

By Darren Johnson Campus News OK, I’ll be honest. One of the main places where I test drive ideas for this column is an…

April 16, 2022

The Upside of Being a Part-Time College Instructor; and How You Can Do It, Too

By Darren Johnson Campus News In my long life thus far, I don’t think I’ve ever read a positive article on college adjunct teaching,…

March 18, 2022

The frozen Pompeii of post-Covid college

By Darren Johnson Campus News I’m adjunct teaching at a couple of colleges this semester, and I visit many more campuses on behalf of…

February 14, 2022

The bloated death of the college syllabus

By Darren Johnson Campus News Ah, the syllabus. The bane of first-day classes. So boring. Not a great ice-breaker. But it doesn’t have to…

December 15, 2021

The rise (and fall) of the super-adjunct

By Darren Johnson Campus News The typical full-time professor may earn $50,000 to $100,000 a year, give or take, and teach a spring and…

December 3, 2021

Adjunct instructors and ‘the Great Resignation’

By Darren Johnson Campus News I belong to a few adjunct gripe groups on Facebook, and every now and then someone will come on…

October 16, 2021

The kiddie table of academia

By Darren Johnson Campus News It’s holiday time, and for those unfamiliar with large American family gatherings this time of year, let me tell…

September 18, 2017

On becoming an adjunct

By Jonathan Lopes Campus News Becoming a professor was a wish list item versus a bucket list item. I see bucket list more as…