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In a recent department faculty meeting, an endowed White male professor commented that the majority of students were “cordwood.” As an adjunct professor, I found that his comments bothered me. Is it possible he considered adjuncts—the majority of faculty who teach our nation’s undergraduate students (Kezar, 2012)—as expendable objects too? The New Oxford American Dictionary defines “cordwood” as wood that has been cut into uniform lengths, used especially for fires.
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Hensley, B.O. (2015). We are not “Cordwood”. In: Hartlep, N.D., Hensley, B.O. (eds) Critical Storytelling in Uncritical Times. Constructing Knowledge: Curriculum Studies in Action. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-256-1_9
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