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IN THIS ISSUE

• Part-timers face special challenges in teaching students with disabilities. Read about how you can deal with special students effectively.
• Adjunct Keith Hoeller has made tilting at windmills a fine art. BUT is it quixoctic of you're winning?
• Check out these tips for taking the terror out of giving presentations.
• There are babies in the Academy, and essayist Oronte Churm is tired of the 2 o'clock feedings.
• and more...

FEATURES

THE CLASSROOM
Part-timers, with their typically frenetic schedules, dearth of office space, and transient presence on campus, face special challenges in teaching students with disabilities. Meeting the challenges can be difficult but definitely doable.

PROFILE
Keith Hoeller has been working to improve adjunct conditions for more than twelve years. He’s written dozens of letters and op-ed pieces, nudged journalists to write stories, exposed unfair working conditions and contract violations, helped start organizations (he’s co-founder of Washington State Part-Time Faculty Association), and worked with state legislators to change the system. It is still a quixotic quest if you’re slowly winning?

NEWS

SHOPTALK
It should be welcome news to learn that the national AFT has recently announced a legislative campaign aimed at part-time faculty employment for 20 states. Unfortunately, the AFT has placed its number one priority on adding new full-time faculty positions.

IN THE CLASSROOM
If lecturing still gives you butterflies in your stomach, don’t panic. We’ve got some tips to take the terror out of giving presentations.

ANALYSIS
Saying goodbye to one’s adjunct career can be hard to do.

GOING THE DISTANCE
Getting students to participate in class can be tough. Getting them to do so online is a special challenge.

DESK DRAWER

• GW and Union Ready to Begin Negotiations
• Faculty Bias: Science or Propaganda
• Heartland Plans Appeal of Arbitration Decision

REVIEWS

PAGES
Online Student Skills and Strategies Handbook. Reviewer Evelyn Beck tells faculty teaching courses online whether they ought to recommend the book to their students.

PAGES
Kristen Kennedy reviews Teaching Defiance: Stories and Strategies for Activist Educators.

OPINION

FIRST PERSON
Oronte Churm writes about babies–those faculty members who are simply unable to cope with life’s ups and downs.

IVORY TOWER
It’s easy to become entrenched in a part-time teaching job. Essayist David Murray argues why it’s crucial that part-timers adopt an “up the academic ladder or OUT of the Academy” strategy.

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
It’s time to start hiring non-tenured faculty as if their appointments mattered. Why? Because the ramifications of current shoddy hiring practices are starting to show up in the mainstream media, and reflect poorly on the Academy.