Best Kept Adjunct Secret: LinkedIn
Over winter break, I finished reading Michelle Post’s book, Building Your Adjunct Platform.
It was insightful, helpful, positive, and filled with extremely valuable links and resources (if you’re a struggling or aspiring part-time professor, you need to get this book).
Many of her tips included things that I felt I’d taken care of, like establishing meaningful connections with students and working for various schools to ensure your financial security.
However, Post also included a number of adjunct websites that list current positions available, and she suggests joining some adjunct groups on LinkedIn (which I’d kind of thought about, but never looked into- for some reason, I assumed they didn’t existed).
Sure enough, I found around 10 adjunct groups on LinkedIn (I’m sure there are more), and I joined a few.
To make my new find even better, the feel of these groups was exactly what I was looking for!
They’re positive, supportive, helpful, and useful. I’ve contributed my two-cents to quite a few discussions, and other people have also been eager to respond and help direct their fellow instructors to open teaching positions or toward a new teaching style (ie. laptops in the classroom, or no?).
Needless to say, these are the people I’ve been looking for. I’ve met such amazing colleagues face-to-face, and I wondered where I could find other positive-minded colleagues online.
If you have an interest in teaching college, asking questions about the current classes you’re teaching, or are looking for a supportive group of fellow instructors..
The secret is LinkedIn.
Happy connecting, and happy teaching!
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