Keynoting ACUI Region IV Conference Today…

I am pleased to be one of the Keynote speakers at this week’s ACUI Region IV Conference. This session finds me discussing student like online and how it can impact their civic and campus engagement. Many thanks to my scholar-colleague Adam Gismondi who is letting me use some of the concepts he developed in his research on this topic. In addition to the keynote address, I will also be presenting a follow up educational session that takes some of the themes from my keynote and goes into further detail about how professionals… Read More
What I Did on National Adjunct Walkout Day and Why You Should Care

The first ever National Adjunct Walkout Day was this past Wednesday, a day I also happened to be teaching as an adjunct faculty member. I didn’t walk out of my class, but I did use the first few minutes of class to highlight an issue that I think is important: the benefit-less extremely low pay of adjunct faculty in higher education. The fast food workers of the ivory tower. It is a population that, in some reports, takes on up to 70% of the teaching load at U.S. colleges and universities. A… Read More