Monday, February 17, 2014

YSU Jambar Ad Tuesday Feb 18, 2014

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Monday, February 10, 2014

YSU Jambar ad Tuesday Feb11,2014



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Commentary

       Part time faculty members have expressed sympathy for students faced with ever increasing tuition and fees.   Some are uneasy that it is understandable that students might directly link these increases to personnel costs of their instructors.    The above chart clearly shows that this could not possibly be any part of the increase in tuition and fees.   

        The consumer price index plotted is the U.S. Dept. of Labor Urban Index for all items

        The tuition and fees line includes  full time 12 to 16 sem. hour tuition, the general fee and the information services fee which all students pay.  It also includes an average set of lab and standard college fees as they have blossomed forth throughout the years.  It does not include the parking or transportation service fees. 

        The actual  causes behind tuition and fee  increases can be left for other people to plot other lines on other graphs.  
    


 


Monday, February 3, 2014

Feb 4 Jambar Ad Post




 Ad Number 3
Jambar ad for Feb 4, 2014 starts here
YSU Part Time Faculty Association
Welcomes the
College English Association of Ohio

Spring Conference on English in the Arts
YSU  Williamson Hall
Saturday April 5

Conference Co- Chair Karen Schubert
YSU Part Time Faculty Member
Will Present A Session On

Teaching As an Adjunct in Ohio
for more see: ysuparttimefaculty.blogspot.com
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                Commentary

                 Many YSU part time faculty members  maintain full time jobs in their specialty areas. Many YSU courses however ,  particularly within the general education requirement area,  are taught by part timers who are in a significantly different situation.   They love to teach and enjoy remaining associated with their major field.    They may try to put together a full time job out of part time courses from one or more colleges.    They may juggle another part time job around a part time teaching schedule.   The end result is a perilous economic situation.

               Accreditation boards,  employers, advisory committees and educators all agree on the importance of the ability to communicate in writing and speech.    Those who are charged with the responsibility of carrying out this task need a reasonably professional environment.   Those who charge them with the task incur a responsibility to work towards providing the environment.  At YSU it has been the part time faculty that have taught most of these classes. 

                In the short term some modest improvement is doable.  In the longer term a slow but determined restructuring will be necessary.     More on both in future commentaries and ads.  The roadblocks forward will often be straw men intended to get people to just give up.   We don't teach our students to give up and neither should we. 

           I hope to see as many people as possible at the conference on April 5