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Even before “The Great Resignation,” the nature of work and employment was evolving.  Private sector businesses, nonprofits, and public sector organizations shifted from conventional employment and...

Part II: Deploying Your Personal Brand Companies love mission statements. Or rather, consultants who get paid to help companies develop mission statements love mission statements. Likewise, adjunct...

Part I: Developing Your Personal Brand Adjunct professors know all about establishing a reputation. It’s important to position oneself as an expert by demonstrating research, study, and clarity of ...

In academia, one of the biggest trends in recent years is the rise of adjunct teaching. Since the early 1970s, tenured positions at colleges and universities in the U.S. have steadily been replaced...

Have you heard this tired cliche? “Those who can’t do, teach.” It’s time to flip this phrase. “Those who teach have more to give.”  Successful entrepreneurs are celebrated, and those who rebel agai...

It’s common for adjunct professors to hold down more than one job. The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) reports that 60% of part-time professors have at least one or more jobs i...

It’s the perfect symbiotic relationship: adjunct professors and small business owners. When paired, the two can grow revenue faster and with greater agility than their big business counterparts. So...

Imbalance prevails as the number of awarded post-doctorate degrees increases, the percentage of those with PhDs securing tenure-track dwindles. How the Decline of Tenure Led to Alt-Ac To cut costs,...

Newer reports reveal that roughly seventy-five percent of college classroom instructors are off the tenure track. The trend is widespread and throughout every level of higher education. Elite schoo...

Adjunct professors used to be a small subset of the teaching population. Most professors at the college level were full-time or on a tenure track. Today, most available teaching jobs at colleges an...