Chronicle Article on Adjunct Professors and Student Needs
David Keller sent this. Here's a link and also the article. http://chronicle.com/article/Value-Students-Then-Value-/48881/ The Chronicle Review October 20, 2009 If Colleges Valued Students, They'd Value Adjuncts By Isaac Sweeney I walk down the noisy hallway, where the students push and shove their way into the narrow stairway they use between classes. I break from the crowd and glance to my right. Through the half-closed blinds on the glass doors, I see most of my colleagues gathered in the conference room. They look serious, intently listening to the one in the corner, who seems to be giving the speech of his life. I am witnessing important business, I think to myself. I am an adjunct instructor in an innovative writing department in Virginia. It doesn't take long for me to realize that I'm looking into a conference room of full-time ...