Sunday, September 14, 2008

Another Session on Adjuncts at the Cs!

I was pleased to learn of another session about adjuncts at the Cs in March 2009!  Below is all the relevant information.  And yes, I’ll be posting this again in February!

On the Ground: Alternatives for Understanding the Role of Faculty in Rhetoric and Composition
Session: N.18 on Mar 14, 2009 from 12:30 PM to 1:45 PM

Organizing Composition’s “Walking Monsters”

The state of composition resembles Emerson’s description of a society “in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters.” Those who do the research (and learn about it) don’t teach. Those who teach don’t do research. The many thoughtful, carefully researched, theoretically and historically grounded papers being presented at this conference are increasingly irrelevant to conditions on the ground, unless and until the people actually teaching the composition classes are full participants in the conversation. For this to happen, they must first be earning a livable wage and have medical and retirement needs taken care of. Then, they must be incorporated into the governance structures of their institutions. Finally, they must be supported in participation in conferences and research activities. The contract won recently by the California Faculty Association and their current efforts to include more contingent faculty in academic governance point the way for …

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