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• If you want a full-time teaching job, you’ll need a portfolio. We’ll show you how to compile a set of winning portfolios.
• Faculty, student and administrator bloggers discuss grade inflation. Prepare to be surprised.
• Hold on to your red pens. There’s software that can grade that mountain of essays for you.
• Education is no laughing matter, but loosen up a little in the classroom, will ya?
• and more...

FEATURES

THE WEB
College faculty are routinely flogged in the mainstream press over the inflation of grades. So, what do the faculty serving up and those big, juicy, delicious As and Bs have to say on the subject? How about college students? Prepare to be surprised.

PROFILE
This guy’ll do anything for a story. Kenneth Venit has wrestled a bear, eaten dog food and horse meat. His adventurous nature is what makes him a fantastic teacher, as well.

THE JOB
Helping students understand the differences between face-to-face and online courses is crucial to the success of the student...and the sanity of the instructor.

COVER STORY
If you’re ever planning on landing a full-time job, you’ll need all three. We’ll show you how to compile a set of winning portfolios.

NEWS

SHOPTALK
At Columbia College in Chicago, part-timers just signed their first contract. At last, CC’s President Warrick L. Carter gets some good press.

GOING THE DISTANCE
Hold on to your red pens. There’s software that can grade that mountain of essays for you.

DESK DRAWER

• Part-Time Faculty Jobs to Remain Secure During Accreditation Appeal at California Community College
• Walden University Requiring PH.D./Doctoral Enrollment
• University Hopes to Reverse NLRB Ruling on Part-Time Professors’ Union
• At Pace, Part-Time Contract Negotiations Continue–Slowly
• Record Payout for Part-Time Lecturer £25,000 Award in Landmark Ruling

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS
Academic freedom is important. Then again, so is knowing when to just put a sock in it.

IN THE CLASSROOM

IN THE CLASSROOM
Education is no laughing matter, but loosen up a little in the classroom, will ya?

REVIEWS

PAGES
Amateurs shouldn’t juggle chainsaws and knives. But how about parenting and professing?

OPINION

FIRST PERSON
Meet our man on campus, Oronte Churm. This is the first of three dispatches from Hinterland University–Inner Station Campus.

IVORY TOWER
Essayist Meg Gutman Klosko thinks you’re in denial–though you’re probably not (right?).

UNCONVENTIONAL WISDOM
At UCLA, is the bigger problem that students wanted to tape faculty lectures, or that they were bullied into stopping?

THE LAST WORD
It’s time for part-timers to come out of the closet.