Last week and this week I've been doing teaching observations of the instructors in the Studies in Religion program that I direct. I have to say, the instructors are outstanding. All contingent faculty and doing more than they are getting paid for, all for the benefit of our students. CUNY needs to stop exploiting adjunct faculty.
#CUNY #PublicHigherEd #ContingentFaculty

(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.)

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.

#academicchatter @academicchatter #contingentfaculty #academia #publishorperish

New School contingent faculty are on strike and The Illuminator project joined them on the picket line. What, indeed, would James Baldwin do?