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From Precarious to Permanent: Building an Academic Career as an Adjunct
Session Overview
This video was part of the June 2022 REMOTE: The Connected Faculty Summit
According to the American Association of University Professors, 70% of college and university faculty are contingent or adjunct instructors. Despite this, when people think of a teaching career in higher education, they often think of tenured professors. Contingent and adjunct instructors are overwhelmingly important to many colleges and universities but, because of their employment status, they face unique challenges and difficult choices as they pursue an academic career. Join this session to hear from two experienced college instructors as they discuss the issues they face and consider ways higher education could help resolve concerns for what is arguably the largest segment of its instructor workforce.
Speakers
Dr. Nina Huntemann
Chief Academic Officer | Chegg
With more than two decades of experience in higher education and digital learning, Dr. Nina Huntemann is widely recognized as one of the preeminent voices in the use of technology to improve student outcomes. Prior to joining Chegg, she served as Vice President of Learning at edX, a global online learning platform, where she worked with educators to transform their teaching to incorporate online learning. Before that, she was a tenured professor at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts in the Department of Communication and Journalism, where she taught and published research in digital media studies.
Stephanie Orme
Associate User Experience Researcher | Key Lime Interactive
Dr. Stephanie Orme is an Associate User Experience Researcher at Key Lime Interactive, a CX and UX consulting agency. She just transitioned out of a career in higher education after 12 years in part-time and temporary faculty positions
Dr. Yuleisy Mena
Adjunct Professor | Florida International University
Dr. Mena is a local Miamian and proud graduate of Florida International University where she earned a bachelor’s degree in history and post-graduate work in curriculum and instruction with a concentration in social studies. She currently works at Gulliver Preparatory Academy and adjuncts for FIU’s Department of Teaching and Learning. She has taught in the classroom for ten years and instructs pre-service teachers how to teach social studies curriculum in her social studies laboratory course, many who stay teaching in the local Miami community. Her research focuses on historical phenomena related to education and the use of oral histories. She is currently working on a study in her local community related to informal learning and its effects on the political participation of Cuban-Americans. She also provides workshops and resources to public schools teachers, teaching pedagogical practices that best teach the histories of Latin America and other social studies based concepts.
