Kentucky Part-Timer Ken Hardy & the "N" Word
by Marla Kay Houghteling WORDS ARE IMPORTANT to Ken Hardy; he doesn’t shy away from the difficult ones. He’d like his students to have this same respect for language. In the summer of 1998, he was teaching an interpersonal-communications course at Jefferson Community College in Louisville, Kentucky, where he had been an adjunct since 1995. Scheduled to teach three courses in the fall, he was subsequently stunned by a message from the academic dean that there were no classes for him. The college would claim that low enrollment in one class and reassignment of two classes to a full-time professor […]
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