Yikes!  We got so caught up in the release of our new report American Academic, that we fell behind in our posting here.  So let's get caught up with a quick look at what has been happening out there on the nets.

• First off, Historiann, Sherman Dorn, and Professor Zero joined Dr. Crazy in responding to our questions about how they would change higher education if they could, but you already knew that from the updated header above (you did see the updated header, right?).
• In a moment of serendipity, the day The Chronicle of Higher Education reported on our new report, the other featured story was about St. John's University's decisions to convert 20 contingent faculty positions in their writing program into full-time tenure track lines.
• Meanwhile, Marquette University continues to debate how they treat their contingent faculty members.
• Over at Inside Higher Ed, Linda Muzzin from York University in Canada, considers what the recent contingent faculty strike at York teaches us about the treatment of that group of workers and higher education in general.

And of course, there are countless stories about faculty cuts all over the country-most of them contingent faculty cuts.  You can keep up with that news in the Recent News section of our Facebook page.