The Case of Professor Olivia McAbee

Authors

  • Kendell Spillman
  • Lauren Kuhn University of South Carolina

Keywords:

Adjuncts, age bias, campus policies, classroom management, gender bias, non-traditional students, professionalism, veterans, human resources

Abstract

Professor Olivia McAbee is a young adjunct working in the English departments of two state colleges. She assigned a poetry project to her literature class. The students were required to work in groups and meet with the instructor prior to their classroom presentations. When one group fell short of expectations, Professor McAbee was left questioning whether she and the students involved had handled the situation correctly

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Published

2020-04-16

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Cases