If you’re a professor, you may be wondering how anyone can possibly manage to start teaching numerous college classes with course content that they’re satisfied when they don’t have a lot of time. This tends to be the reality for most adjunct professors who pick up various college courses whenever they’re offered, and sometimes teach…
Looking for a way to motivate your students, relate to them, and help them succeed in college and life? Read Isa Adney’s latest article in the Huffington Post “How Professors Help Community College Students Transfer.” She mentions that all it takes is one encouraging professor to impact a student enough to keep them moving forward…
Happy Professor: An Adjunct Instructor’s Guide to Personal, Financial, and Student Success is now available! What started out as a ‘just for fun’ summer project, is now available in Amazon’s Kindle store for $0.99 (or free if you borrow it through Kindle’s Lending Library). If you’re looking to get into adjunct teaching, spruce up…
As an adjunct instructor with motivated students and a generally positive outlook on life, other professors (and people in general) tend to have one question in common for me: How are you doing this successfully? It’s not always easy, but here are 10 tricks to being happier, and more successful, as a part-time or full-time…
Typical weekday. Wake up at 9:00 am, read a few surprisingly hilarious chapters from a travel book about Costa Rica while savoring my favorite morning ritual- an amazing cup of hot tea. Jog over to the gym to take a cycling class with a girlfriend, lay by the pool with her to chat for a…