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2022 Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) annual conference
January 19-21, 2022, Washington, DC
2021 Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) annual conference
January 20-23, 2021, Virtual
2020 Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) annual conference (Delphi Award winners announced)
January 22-25, 2020, Washington, DC
2019 Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) annual conference (Delphi Award winners announced)
January 23-26, 2019, Atlanta, Ga.
SPACE — The Symposium for Part-time, Adjunct, and Contingent Educators (Keynote speaker: Adrianna Kezar)
June 9, 2018, Atlanta, Ga.
Building organizational capacity and innovating for resiliency and thriving (Speaker: Adrianna Kezar)
Association of Presbyterian Colleges & Universities (APCU) Conference
March 23, 2018, New Orleans, La.
Creating New Faculty Models: An Interactive Session (Panelists: Adrianna Kezar and Elizabeth Holcombe)
Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) annual conference
Jan. 24 – 27, 2018, Washington, DC
Closing Plenary: Where Do We Go From Here? (Panelist: Adrianna Kezar)
Regional Conference of the National Center for Collective Bargaining in Higher Education
Dec. 2, 2017, California State University, Long Beach
Super Session: Human Resources and Support of the Changing Faculty (Presenter: Adrianna Kezar)
College & University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) Annual Conference 2017
Sep. 18, 2017, San Diego, Calif.
Assessment Leadership Academy: Guest Faculty: Adrianna Kezar
July 21, 2017
Implementing Changes to the Faculty Role: Stakeholders’ Conflicting Mental Models Could Be an Impediment to Change. (Presenters: Adrianna Kezar, Elizabeth Holcombe)
2017 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting
April 27-May 1, 2017, San Antonio, Texas
Panel: Envisioning the Faculty for the Twenty-First Century (Panelist: Adrianna Kezar)
44th Annual National Conference of The National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions
March 26-28, 2017, New York City
ACE2017 99th Annual Meeting
March 11-14, 2017, Washington, DC
Envisioning Faculty in the 21st Century (Panelists: Adrianna Kezar and Elizabeth Holcombe)
Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) annual conference
Jan. 25-28, 2017, San Francisco, Calif.
In the Media
2021
Inside Higher Ed
January 12, 2021
The Adjunctification of Gen Ed
2020
Diverse
November 16, 2020
Report Examines Basic Needs Insecurities of Instructional Staff at Colleges and Universities
Inside Higher Ed
April 20, 2020
Barely Getting By
2019
The Chronicle of Higher Education
November 24, 2019
Academe as the Dystopian Workplace
The Chronicle of Higher Education
October 30, 2019
How Penn State Improved Conditions for Adjuncts
Inside Higher Ed
October 10, 2019
‘The Gig Academy’
Inside Higher Ed
May 28, 2019
Hope for Faculty Off the Tenure Track?
2018
The Chronicle of Higher Education
December 16, 2018
For Staff and Adjuncts, a Shot at Tenure
Inside Higher Ed
October 31, 2018
Q&A: Toward Better Assessments in Online Courses
Inside Higher Ed
October 12, 2018
A Non-Tenure Track Profession?
The Chronicle of Higher Education
June 3, 2018
Do unions help adjuncts?
Inside Higher Ed
January 10, 2018
The Faculty of the future
2017
Inside Higher Ed
October 30, 2017
Faculty Buy-in Builds, Bit by Bit: Survey of Faculty Attitudes on Technology
Chronicle of Higher Education
September 24, 2017
What I’m Reading: ‘Shared Leadership in Higher Education’
2016
The Guardian
November 8, 2016
Tef: dump the pointless metrics and take a hard look at casualisation
The Chronicle of Higher Education
November 3, 2016
The Past and Future of Higher Education
University Business
October 24, 2016
Professors staying and the impact on adjuncts: Delayed retirement is a contributing factor in the proliferation of adjuncts
Inside Higher Ed
October 17, 2016
‘Envisioning the Faculty’
The Brooklyn Rail
October 4, 2016
Labor Costs and the Life of the Mind
Inside Higher Ed
August 22, 2016
More Faculty Diversity, Not on Tenure Track
Inside Higher Ed
August 10, 2016
Helping Faculty ‘Get It’
Salon
June 30, 2016
Adjunct professorships hurt students and educators alike. Is it time to abandon tenure?
The Conversation US
June 28, 2016
Is it time to eliminate tenure for professors?
Education Dive
April 13, 2016
Tenure is disappearing, much to the detriment of higher ed
Inside Higher Ed
April 11, 2016
Professor Pay Up 3.4%
Interfolio
March 22, 2016
WEBINAR | Adrianna Kezar: Policies and Practices for Supporting Non-Tenure Track Faculty
Inside Higher Ed
March 17, 2016
A Shared Vision for Faculty
Inside Higher Ed
March 17, 2016
The Cost of Being Decent to Adjuncts
Inside Higher Ed
March 8, 2016
The Power of Grad Student Teaching
2015
Inside Higher Ed
December 15, 2015
Two Steps Back? New England accreditor says it’s trying to update its standards, but many adjunct activists fear changes would undercut efforts to protect those off the tenure track
Inside Higher Ed
December 8, 2015
Too Many Teaching Waivers?
Law Street
November 13, 2015
Professor in Name Only: Teaching Without Tenure in American Universities
Inside Higher Ed
November 9, 2015
36 Books On Higher Education
Inside Higher Ed
November 2, 2015
The Case for Better Faculty Pay
Los Angeles Times
October 29, 2015
Why you can get a free college education in Germany but not in California
Inside Higher Ed
September 17, 2015
Valuing the Faculty
Inside Higher Ed
August 27, 2015
Developing Adjuncts
Inside Higher Ed
June 10, 2015
Flawed Evaluations
The New York Times
June 6, 2015
Tenure Firmly in Place, but Colleges Grow Wary of Lasting Commitments
Inside Higher Ed
May 15, 2015
New Career Path?
Science Careers
May 7, 2015
Treading a different track
Inside Higher Ed
May 6, 2015
R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Study suggests most part-time faculty members want full-time work. But what they want even more is acceptance as colleagues and peers from full-time professors and administrators.
LEO Weekly
March 11, 2015
A is for adjunct: The Hidden Class of Exploited Labor Teaching in our Colleges and Universities
Pacific Standard
February 26, 2015
Are Adjunct Professors the New Fast-Food Workers?
Inside Higher Ed
February 20, 2015
Faculty SOS
The Wall Street Journal
February 16, 2015
Colleges’ Use of Adjuncts Comes Under Pressure
Inside Higher Ed
February 9, 2015
15K Per Course?
Aljazeera America
February 4, 2015
Unions can fix the crisis facing adjunct professors
2014
Inside Higher Ed
September 24, 2014
No Country for Old Adjuncts
Inside Higher Ed
June 23, 2014
More ‘Intentionality’ Needed
New England Journal of Higher Education
May 27, 2014
New Directions for Higher Education: Q&A with Education Scholar Adrianna Kezar on the Changing Faculty
Inside Higher Ed
May 16, 2014
Looking Beyond the Tenured
USA TODAY College
April 29, 2014
Part-time faculty copes with economic hardships, lack of university support
The Atlantic
April 28, 2014
The Adjunct Revolt: How Poor Professors Are Fighting Back
University Business
February 25, 2014
Unintended consequences: The rise—and fall—of adjuncts in higher education
Inside Higher Ed
February 25, 2014
Caps Untouched
KALW News
February 18, 2014
Today on Your Call: How is the corporatization of higher education affecting teachers?
PBS NewsHour
February 6, 2014
Is academia suffering from ‘adjunctivitis’? Low-paid adjunct professors struggle to make ends meet
NPR All Things Considered
February 3, 2014
Part-Time Professors Demand Higher Pay; Will Colleges Listen?
The Chronicle of Higher Education
January 29, 2014
Accreditation Standards Should Include Treatment of Adjuncts, Report Says
Inside Higher Ed
January 28, 2014
Focus on Faculty
WHYY Radio Times
January 4, 2014
The rise of adjunct faculty
2013
Inside Higher Ed
December 6, 2013
Innovation — Doomed to Fail?
The New York Times
December 3, 2013
More College Adjuncts See Strength in Union Numbers
Inside Higher Ed
October 16, 2013
Not Too Expensive to Fix
Aljazeera America
October 15, 2013
Adjunct professors in dire straits with low pay, lack of full-time jobs
American Association of University Professors
September-October 2013
Change Requires Discipline
PeerReview | Association of American Colleges & Universities
Summer 2013
Creating a High-Quality Place to Teach, Learn, and Work
Trusteeship Magazine | Association of Governing Boards
May/June 2013
The Changing Academic Workforce
Inside Higher Ed
March 26, 2013
Our Dirty Little Secret
The Chronicle of Higher Education
March 18, 2013
The New Faculty Minority: Tenured professors fight to retain control as their numbers shrink
Inside Higher Ed
February 22, 2013
‘Imperative for Change’
2012
Inside Higher Ed
December 5, 2012
Who Deserves Affordable Care?
The Chronicle of Higher Education
November 13, 2012
Deans’ Ideas About Hiring Adjuncts Differ From Reality, Survey Finds
Inside Higher Ed
November 12, 2012
Questions to Ask on Adjuncts
Inside Higher Ed
October 2, 2012
A New Faculty Path
Inside Higher Ed
August 3, 2012
The Changing Nature of Faculty
The Chronicle of Higher Education
July 31, 2012
With Student Learning at Stake, Group Calls for Better Working Conditions for Adjuncts
The Chronicle of Higher Education
March 25, 2012
Accreditation Is Eyed as a Means to Aid Adjuncts