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