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Dr. Judith Lakamper and Dr. Erin Bell share their experiences being parents in academia and academics at home. Your co-hosts discuss life with children during and after graduate school as they highlight scholarly research regarding parenting, marriage, gender, and other pertinent topics as well as their own experiences as both mothers and scholars.
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Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
The Adjunctification of Higher Education
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
Most of us working as educators in higher education realize the key role that adjunct instructors fulfill within the academy. Educators in adjunct positions often teach the lion's share of courses at colleges and universities but do not necessarily reap the rewards such as benefits or job stability that their tenure-track and full-time colleagues do.
With that in mind, Judith and Erin discuss whether or not there are any positive aspects to working in an adjunct capacity, especially for working parents. The conversation is contextualized by informal data gleaned from the podcast audience and current coverage in the media.
This episode refers to the poignant and important essay by Adam Harris titled "The Death of an Adjunct" found here at The Atlantic Online: https://www.theatlantic.com/author/adam-harris/
We also refer to "How to Fix The Adjunct Crisis" in The Chronicle of Higher Education which can be found at https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-to-fix-the-adjunct-crisis/?cid2=gen_login_refresh&cid=gen_sign_in
and data about U of C-Boulder shared at Inside Higher Ed posted at https://www.insidehighered.com/college/126614/university-colorado-boulder
and in the article "Never Waste a good Pandemic" at https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/12/04/boulder-arts-and-sciences-dean-wants-build-back-faculty-post-pandemic-one-non-tenure
The opening and closing song, "Vienna Beat" by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial License and shared through the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Blue_Dot_Sessions/RadioPink/Vienna_Beat
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