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‘Easy to just write us off’: Rural students’ choices shrink as colleges slash majors

As enrollments fall, rural-serving universities are shedding a huge number of programs by JON MARCUS, BRIANNA ATKINSON, MOLLY MINTA and AMY MORONA CLEVELAND, Miss. — Although she won a scholarship to Mississippi State University, two hours’ drive away, Shamya Jones couldn’t get there because she had a new baby and...

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Indian High Court Orders Part-Time Lecturers to Accept Unequal Pay

The Allahabad High Court in Uttar Pradesh, India, has directed that 9,000 vacancies in the various affiliated degree colleges in the state be filled within a year. The court has.

Korean Lecturers Protest Low Pay and Shoddy Treatment

One morning recently, throngs of workers were rushing to their offices on the slippery road. But amidst them was a white-haired couple taking down a rain-soaked green-colored camping tent to dry it in the morning sunshine, alongside other rain-soaked supplies. They were not homeless people...

A Bigger Slice of the Pie

by Mike Kielkopf For the last several years David Milroy, a part-timer since 1988 at Grossmont, Southwestern and MiraCosta colleges, has been part of a determined battle for parity–“equality in.

In Japan, Limited-Term Faculty Shoulder the Workload

A nationwide survey of foreign professors in Japan reveals that those who do the most work are younger, less experienced teachers either on limited-term or part-time contracts, rather than tenured.

Faculty Senates: The Last Bastion of Patrician Privilege

by Christopher Cumo Like nearly every college and university, Santa Rosa Junior College in Santa Rosa, California relies on part-time faculty. With 320 full-time faculty, the College employs 1100 part-time faculty, says adjunct professor of political science Michael Ludder. He adds that part-time faculty teach 45 percent of...

Mainstream Media and Higher Education News Reporting

by P.D. Lesko For those who work within the field of higher education in the United States, finding industry-related news can be a chore. Of course, there is The Chronicle.

When Students Evaluate Faculty Online

by Jennifer C. Berkshire When it was time for Eastern Connecticut State student Jonathan Marsh* to evaluate his math teacher last fall, he had no problem identifying what was wrong with her. She.

The Feds Aren’t Doing Enough to Investigate Problem Colleges

by Adam Goldstein Incomplete written guidelines and penalties that had not been updated since 2016. Significant turnover and reductions among staff. Changing agency priorities and department probes put “on hold.” Over the past six years, these problems have stifled the U.S. Department of Education’s investigations...

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