I hope you don't mind me promoting a brand-new community for adjunct/part-time/contingent faculty members:

adjunctlife

Okay, I started a community for those of us teaching writing. It is called "teachingcomp" but it is for teachers of any type of writing-- technical writing, expository, poetry, etc.

http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=teachingcomp

Crossposted to "instructors," "Educators"

Hi fellow acads, I'm currently in my final year of doing a BA in linguistics and am considering doing another Bachelor's degree, in Law (LLB), after I graduate. The Law programme prefers to admit students with a first degree in a field that is related to law, eg biology/environmental engineering (for environmental law) and information technology ( ( Read more... )

I started a community: transculturalIt's all about how you define yourself in the world, being made up of all the components that you were given and the ones you pick up along the way. :) Basically it's sociology in motion through the eyes of individuals of diverse backgrounds. The community is for real discussion of all aspects of what it means to be and ( Read more... )

I'm a member here and I wanted to let everyone know that I made a new community called literary_escape that is all about discussing, recommending, and rating books. It is a general literature site where any and all book types are welcome to be talked about. I read quite a few different types of books and am always on the lookout for new and ( Read more... )