…adjuncts report feeling disconnected from the campus community they serve, and there’s always competition from other schools who may offer a better pay rate. At Florida Community College at Jacksonville…
…fulfillment comes from a commitment to duty and devotion. In my case a snag occurred because my devotion had diminished. I was going through the motions and teaching had become…
…even though they are at home when they log on to complete their class work, they still need to find an environment free from distractions where they can turn off…
I work in a department that regularly enrolls 250 students in first-year classes, as do many other departments in colleges and universities. In my case, the situation is complicated by…
Students come to an online course with different interests, prior knowledge, and preferred learning styles. This is something that Stephen Holland, chair of the English department at Muscatine Community College…
…instructor has lost both a sense of focus and a point of view. The solution is to separate the mechanical comments and the substantive comments. The mechanical comments encourage the…
…senior students. The learning flows “seamlessly among the community of students” (p. 29) as they progress through the course curriculum. To make the model work, the faculty had to begin…
…more employable, to make the nation competitive in world markets, and to add to the economy’s of the university’s service area. For this reason, undergraduate education, particularly in the first…
