The Law

A Bigger Slice of the Pie

by Mike Kielkopf

For the last several years David Milroy, a part-timer since 1988 at Grossmont, Southwestern and MiraCosta colleges, has been part of a determined battle for parity–“equality in amount, status, or value”–with his full-time counterparts in California’s community colleges. Gains have been made, but those gains have been slow, inconsistent and inadequate, partly because parity legislation allows each district–like Humpty-Dumpty–to negotiate its own definition of parity.

“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean,” says Humpty-Dumpty, “neither more nor less.”

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Fourth Estate

A Round-up of Distance Education Journals

by John D. Edwards

AACE JOURNAL (AACEJ)
The AACE Journal (AACEJ) was originally a print journal entitled Educational Technology Review (ETR). AACEJ provides a multidisciplinary forum and focal point for AACE members to exchange information between disciplines, educational levels, and information technologies. Published by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).

American Journal of Distance Education
AJDE is an internationally recognized journal of research and scholarship in the field of American distance education. It is designed for a wide audience of teachers, trainers, adult educators, researchers and other specialists in education, training and communications. Edited by Michael G. Moore.

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Super Adjunct Blog

End-of-Semester Tips (Well, Kinda)

Posted: May 4th, 2009

It’s crunch time again! The end of the semester has arrived in all its stressed-out glory—the piles of ungraded student work; the looming deadline to get in your final grades; MIA students, who show up whimpering, “If I don’t pass this class, I can’t graduate. My grandma’s coming out from Des Moines to see me walk. She’s 97! You gotta help me!”; and students who bring typed up complaints to staple to their teacher evaluations.

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