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by Pamela Dillon IN ITS 1998 report, “Marching Toward Equity,” the American Federation of Teachers documented that part-time college faculty accounted for 42.6 percent of the total number of college faculty in America. Furthermore, 72 percent of part-timers were paid less than $3,000 per course, and a typical part-timer teaching four courses...

by P.D. Lesko THERE’S AN OLD joke that goes something like this: It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job. It’s a depression when you lose your job. Needless to say,.

by Christopher Cumo C.P. SNOW regarded the humanities and sciences as different systems; its differences extend to the number of visiting scholars in each. Recently, 16 of 519 faculty jobs listed on H-Net,.

by Christopher Cumo AS MANY AS 46 percent of postsecondary faculty are part-time, remarked Jane Buck, AAUP president at its annual meeting last June. Richard Moser, AAUP associate secretary, decries the corporate university for defining education as a commodity it buys at lowest cost by subcontracting adjuncts to...
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by Peter Miller THEY CAN DEFINE pi to fourteen significant figures, easily. Sometimes, they smell like formaldehyde or a newer chemical used to preserve or disassemble life forms. They might greet you as “fellow carbon-based life form.” They’re typically male, and their dress code hasn’t changed since they proudly declared themselves...
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by Amy Rosenberg In the middle of the 19th century, just a couple of years after the formation of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Alexander Dallas Bache remarked, “While science is without organization, it is with out power.” He was in a position to know; Bache was...
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