Letters to the Editor

Part-Time Thoughts Dear Editor: Thanks for your interview with Dr. Dan Jacoby. His study on part-time teaching and graduation rates should be the source of a lot of consideration. Thanks especially for making clear that lower graduation rates may have nothing to do with the part-time faculty, but with systemic problems caused by their adjunct labor conditions. Still, having read the Jacoby study, I must point out that I think there is a major flaw in it. It accounts for every sort of confounding variable except for the most important and most obvious: part-time teachers tend to teach many more […]