Shadow Syllabus

By Sonya Huber, Fairfield University [We came across this great posting on Sonya’s personal blog, http://sonyahuber.com/, and received permission from the author to share it.] I am an Associate Professor at Fairfield University, where I teach composition and creative writing in the English Department. As my fifteenth year of teaching in higher ed begins, I have…

The Emotional Wellbeing of Non-Tenure Track Faculty

A recently released research article in the July issue of Frontiers in Psychology, authored by Gretchen M. Reevy and Grace Deason, finds that the nature of non-tenure-track employment—now a reality for some 70% of higher education faculty members in the U.S.—brings with it an increase in stress, depression, and anxiety. Appropriately titled “Predictors of depression, stress,…