Do you publish or present research? How do you navigate that path in your role as an adjunct?

While this was voted for in a poll last week, it is a topic about which I am personally very interested. Looking forward to learning something useful or practical.

I am maintaining a page with more information about our growing #AdjunctChat; all are welcome!

What opportunities are there to partner with FT faculty and leaders/chairs to institute change, create allies, and enhance development?

Twitter format:#AdjunctChat topic – Tues 7/9 4:00pm EDT = What opportunities exist to partner with FT Faculty & Chairs for change, allies, and development?

Today’s #AdjunctChat 4:00pm EDT What opportunities exist to partner with FT Faculty & Chairs for change, allies, and development? Please RT

Let’s try this outline:

1. Welcome and Introductions
2. Announce the chat topic:
   Today’s #AdjunctChat 4:00pm EDT What opportunities exist to partner with FT Faculty & Chairs for change, allies, and development?
3. Initial sharing of thoughts and ideas on the topic
4. Ask questions (Q1 / A1, Q2 / A2, etc.)
   Q1 Do you partner with FT faculty or chairs / leaders for change, allies, or development? #AdjunctChat
   Q2 Do you have any tales of successful partnerships? #AdjunctChat
   Q3 What goals or vision can we work towards to improve these partnerships? #AdjunctChat
5. Share related tools and resources
6. Announcing the next chat date and time:
   The next #AdjunctChat will be July 23 at 4:00pm EDT.
   A poll will be shared later this week to vote for suggested topics to discuss. #AdjunctChat
7. Invite suggestions for the next chat
8. Closure / summary / take-aways

As #adjunct / part-time teaching is increasingly becoming the norm, how can we prepare for this shift in higher education?

The last one of these we had was an engaging and very rapid chat on “How do you keep current with your discipline? Do you feel a part of the larger disciplinary community” with more discussion than we previously had during this event, and as a result several participants suggested that we can improve upon this by structuring the Question and Answer aspects of the chat. Looking at the excellently organized #LrnChat discussions, perhaps this is a model to try out and see how it works? While I like the messiness of a varied chat, I realize that the very population of adjuncts who may be interested in this experience is most limited in time, so trying something a bit more focused may be helpful; we shall see and discuss!

With this said, this is the structure and format I am thinking of trying for tomorrow. I added a few things to get us started, though hope to get some comments and suggestions to add on to this and get input in the planning, structure, and discussion. What questions do you want to discuss? Please comment below or Tweet me about them.

• Welcome – topic = “As #adjunct / part-time teaching is increasingly becoming the norm, how can we prepare for this shift in higher education?”
• Introductions – Who is here? Where do you adjunct?
• Q1 What shifts do you see related to adjunct work in higher education?
• Q2 What are you doing differently as an #adjunct in response?
• Q3 [SUGGESTIONS?] . . .

I want this to be a useful experience (for me as facilitator of this AND for me as adjunct!), and can only do this with the input from others (chats alone are not very fun, or helpful!). Please offer some suggestions based on the agreed-upon topic.