by Chris Cumo THE GAP BETWEEN rich and poor is as much a fact of academe as of American society. 74 private colleges and universities paid their presidents more than $300,000 in the 1998-1999 academic year. The number of presidents above the $300,000 mark represented a...
by TAA Staff BENNINGTON COLLEGE in Vermont agreed in December 2000 to pay 17 former professors $1.89 million. They were among the 26 whom the college’s president, Elizabeth Coleman, fired in.
by Richard Lyons AS DISCUSSED IN my last column, employing adjunct instructors provides our institutions many benefits beyond reducing overall instructional costs. These include enriching our curricula with real-world perspectives, offering.
by TAA Staff FOR COLLEGE faculty members, administrators and independent scholars, the Fulbright Award represents a prestigious pat on the back, as well as an opportunity to teach and research abroad for one year. Since 1997, The Adjunct Advocate has combed the full list of Fulbright winners,...
by Evelyn Beck IT’S NOT EASY, mostly due to student resistance, but online group projects can be undertaken successfully. And if they’re handled well, the experience can mirror real kinds of on-line collaboration that.
by Jennifer Berkshire In 1976, New York resident and then private citizen Ed ward Sullivan was faced with a tough decision. He could continue to teach English as a Second.
by Joshua Green Like many administrators, Edward Blakely doesn’t need to be convinced of the Internet’s importance to the future of his university. As the new dean of the Graduate School of Management and Public Policy at the New School University in New York, he seems primed...
by Chris Cumo Cynthia Young earned a Ph.D. in American Studies at Yale University in 1999. While there she became involved in organizing graduate students and participated in the grade strike of 1995, for.
by Chris Cumo RAMAN SUNDRUM BREATHES easily in the rarefied air of theoretical physics. He is a postdoc at Stanford University where, in collaboration with Princeton physicist Lisa Kendall, he has.
by P.D. Lesko I NORMALLY DON’T like to write in response to anything published in the current issue of the magazine in which my column appears. However, Brian Caterino’s piece on Stanford’s Office of Learning and Technology got me thinking. In particular, I’m thinking about Professors...
