Sponsored by the Ohio Learning Network, this adjunct resource is designed to offer adjuncts in and out of Ohio support and links to relevant and useful resources. OLN also hosts the OLN-ADJUNCT email list which focuses on supporting and helping adjuncts.

Dr. Clancy Ratliff provides an extended analysis and discussion of the once and brilliant blog Invisible Adjunct. If IA is unfamiliar to you, it is well worth reviewing. I have never seen work like Dr. Ratliff’s before, and I hope more of its kind emerges. Give Dr. Ratliff’s analysis a gander.

Seven principles of good practice when managing virtual adjuncts, i.e., many of us, are presented in this paper from 2005. All of these principles could easily apply to on-site adjuncts as well.

Give Adam Kotsko’s article five minutes of your time, and he might just convince you that committee work is valuable, important, and worthwhile.

Early in this millennium, Bedford/ St. Martin’s published the electronic journal Lore. According to their masthead, “Lore is a journal for adjunct and graduate student teachers of writing.” Reading Lore, and discovering it had closed, moved me toward creating this blog. Reading Lore indicated to me that there were and always will be fresh, new instructors in the Academy who are both willing to offer and take advice. Their discourse on writing a teaching philosophy is useful. Take a look.