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The latest news about non-tenured faculty from around the globe. We've got news, reviews, interviews, profiles, professional development tips, opinion and round-ups of everything you need to know to keep up to speed on the ever-changing world of higher education.

FEATURES

THE LAW
A group of part-time community college instructors in Boston filed a lawsuit in November against the state, saying that hundreds of adjunct faculty in Massachusetts’ public higher education system are unfairly denied health care coverage.

ON CAMPUS
At Temple University, adjuncts earn $14,000 for teaching 12 credit hours. They're trying to unionize but, in a now-familiar strategy, college officials are stone-walling. Will Adjunct Awareness Week help? Only time will tell.

EMPLOYMENT
With colleges and universities cutting back because of the recession, the job outlook for graduate students in language and literature is bleaker than ever before.

NEWS

IVORY TOWER
The real revolution, tucked away in the Race to the Top guidelines released by the Department of Education last month, is that high school has a new mission. No longer is it enough just to graduate students, or even prepare them for college. Schools must now show how they increase both college enrollment and the number of students who complete at least a year of college.

SHOPTALK
Full-time professors oppose the proposed 3 percent pay cut, but part-time faculty union president calls the proposed reduction in salaries inevitable.

GOING THE DISTANCE
A day after the U.S. Department of Education released three-year cohort default rates for federal student loans, for-profit college leaders and lobbyists are breathing a sigh of relief. But policy makers should take note of the high number of low-income and working-class students in these programs at risk of not graduating.

INNOCENTS ABROAD
In Nigeria, government officials wanted all university lecturers, including part-timers, to have Ph.D.s by 2009 or risk losing their jobs. The year is drawing to a close and the push for Ph.D.s in the college classroom has become mired in politics.

DESK DRAWER

• Brownie’s new heckuva job: teaching law school.
• Eastern Michigan University's part-time lecturers campaign for union
• At Mendocino College PT faculty budget slashed by $150,000

ANALYSIS

The Decade Google Made You Stupid
Technology has changed your brain over the past ten years, mostly for the worse. Douglas Rushkoff on Internet-driven ADD, virtual-reality delusions, and how computers changed how you think.

IN THE CLASSROOM

Twitter in Higher Education: More than 30 Percent of Faculty Say They Tweet
The results of a recent study reveal a large number of faculty question the value of using the micro-blogging service in an academic setting.

REVIEWS

PAGES
There is no way its sequel, Stones Into Schools,is, for one thing, not as well written as Three Cups of Tea. Co-author Relin has moved on to other projects. Mortenson is listed as the sole author, giving credit to two writers, Mike Bryan and Kevin Fedarko, in the acknowledgements. If the first book was inspirational, the second sometimes reads like an infomercial.

PAGES
How can this be? They went and published an anthology of science writing, and all but three of the authors are of the male persuasion. Is that even possible? Hold on! I’m thinking. I think yes, there’s a staggeringly high chance that this could have occurred. There’s many a female science badass out there, but I can guarantee she’s spending a large portion of her time and energy trying to hold her ground in a man’s world.

OPINION

UNCONVENTIONAL WISDOM
For every 100 women who earn a college degree, only 73 men do. These statistics practically shout “boy crisis.” Yet the Civil Rights Commission apparently sees the problem as one of discrimination. The Civil Right Commission misdiagnose the "boy crisis."

FIRST PERSON
How does a student I afford grad school without going into debt? A '94 Econoline, bulk food and creative civil disobedience.

THE LAST WORD
Adjunct Advocate and AdjunctNation.com have, once again, been reinvented to keep up with the needs of non-tenured faculty and the technology that makes periodical literature almost a creature of the past.