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• At the for profit University of Phoenix, is the company's use of "faculty professionals" a good business model?
• Videographer Barbara Wolf talks about documentaries and part-time faculty
• Why you should use real-time data in your on-line courses
• Reviewer Vicki Urquhart looks at a trio of murder mysteries set in academe
• and more...

FEATURES

COVER STORY
The for profit University of Phoenix expects to earn $500 million dollars this year. Is the company’s extensive use of over 7,000 “faculty professionals” good business, or just business as usual?

INTERVIEW
Barbara Wolf has documented the exploitation of part-time faculty in Degrees of Shame. She talks to Chris Carter about documentaries and part-time teaching.

NEWS

GOING THE DISTANCE
Use real-time data in your on-line courses, and writer Evelyn Beck is sure both you and your students will enjoy real-time success.

INNOCENTS ABROAD
Those who venture south to Chile to teach will find that a warm welcome and incomparable scenary await them.

DESK DRAWER

• Why What’s Happening to Marguerite Nedreberg Should Matter to You In Ohio, part-time faculty who expect to take advantage of state-funded benefits when they retire are in for a big surprise. The even bigger surprise is that Ohio isn’t the only state cutting benefits to part-time workers who retire.
• At Emerson, Part-Time Faculty Leads the Fight At Emerson College, in New England, part-timers are finding that organizing isn’t as easy as they thought it would be.

REVIEWS

PAGES
As it turns out, Professor Plum has been busier than any of us ever imagined. Our reviewer looks at a trio of murder mysteries in which college professors have done the deeds most foul.

OPINION

UNCONVENTIONAL WISDOM
In the last few years, the student excuse train has hooked on a few more cars: drugs, drinking, dealing and getting arrested.

FIRST PERSON
Teaching can be physically exhausting, but the emotional hazards far outweigh any others which face the part-time faculty member.

THE LAST WORD
Sometimes, speaking your mind should cost you your job.