by TAA Staff FRIDAY MAY 11, 2001 marked a changing of the guard as four new officers were installed on the Executive Board of Pasadena City College’s local chapter of the faculty union, one replacing a president who had held his position for more than two...
by TAA Staff A MICHIGAN TASK force has asked the state legislature to look into the growing reliance of community colleges on part-time teachers. The task force, composed of representatives.
by TAA Staff SOME PROFESSORS SEE nothing to fear in the growing number of adjuncts on campus. The strike at Long Island University’s C. W. Post campus may give them.
by TAA Staff UNIVERSITY LECTURERS from ethnic minorities earn less than white lecturers, are less likely to have a senior job, and their jobs are less secure, says a new report from the Association of University Teachers (AUT) in Britain. Nearly a quarter of white lecturers...
by TAA Staff THE FACULTY UNION at Algonquin College, in Nepean, Ontario, has filed several grievances regarding college hiring part-time and sessional faculty over full-time faculty. “This is not a.
by Jennifer Berkshire Michael Dubson has never thought of himself as an activist. An adjunct professor of English at several Boston-area colleges, Dubson feels more at home in front of.
by P.D. Lesko EACH YEAR U.S. News and World Report publishes a list of university and college rankings based, in part, on information supplied by participating institutions. The Petersen’s Guides to college and university programs are compiled in much the same way. Colleges and universities supply...
by Chris Cumo ROME BUILT AN empire of roads, baths and aqueducts. Some 1,500 years after the empire disintegrated, Florida is building a vast network of community colleges. Its 28, many.
by P.D. Lesko I WANT TO have lunch with Manfredi La Manna. Anyone who can price a journal subscription at $700 and come out looking like the guy in the.
by Chris Cumo WERE GOD AN Ivy Leaguer, his 11th commandment would be publish or perish. The words reverberate through academic libraries and archives. In the Darwinian competition for jobs and promotions, ostensibly victory crowns the scholar with the longest Curriculum Vitae. Sociologist Pierre van den Berghe, himself the author...
