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• A Bigger Slice of the Pie: California's "80 Percent Law."
• To Be or Not to Be (in a Unified Union Local).
• Are you selling comp. copies of textbooks? Are you going to hell for it? Maybe. Maybe not.
• It's time that academic associaiton policy statements had more bite.
• and more...

FEATURES

PROFILE
Part-timer Marilyn Veincentotzs is dreamin’ big. Her plans include the formation of a new international association for part-time faculty who teach online. The IAAP begins.

THE LAW
In California, the state’s influential part-time faculty association is pushing for legislation that would allow community college part-time faculty to teach up to 80 percent of a full-time load on any number of campuses. Could the proposal lead, finally, to more equitable pay for the state’s thousands of part-timers, or is it just a recipe for explosive exploitation?

INTERVIEW
Part-time and full-time faculty who are organized together present, in theory, a unified front during the bargaining process. Behind that unified front, however, lurk union contracts that put the needs of the full-time faculty union members before those of the part-timers. Given this reality, should full-time and part-time faculty co-exist in unified union locals? We put this question (and several others) to presidents of five of the country’s largest and most influential faculty unions.

NEWS

GOING THE DISTANCE
Time management is always an issue for part-timers, right? (Don’t answer that: rhetorical questions waste time.) We’ve got some great time-saving tips, starting with working smarter, not harder.

DESK DRAWER

• High Noone: Dr. Laura Palmer Noone Leaves the University of Phoenix
• In (and Out of) New Orleans, Part-Time Faculty Struggle to Rebuild Careers and Lives
• Eating Well in Academe

ANALYSIS

Gumming the Hand that Feeds You: Academic Policy Statements
If academic associations really wanted to help adjuncts, association leaders and members would spend more time biting the hands that feed them.

REVIEWS

PAGES
Reclaiming the Ivory Tower. The book, by adjunct activist Joe Berry, sets out to help adjuncts improve their working conditions.

FOURTH ESTATE
Mark Drozdowski reviews InsideHigherEd.com, and lets you know if you should surf to the site and have a closer look.

OPINION

FIRST PERSON
Essayist Oronte Churm writes about comp. copies. Opinions vary as to whether selling comp. copies of textbooks is: 1) a clever and easy way to make some extra cash or 2) the Eighth Deadly Sin.

IVORY TOWER
The current debate about academic freedom isn’t, well, all that current. Turns out, faculty have been fighting for the right to free speech since the early 20th century. The question is whether this time, with so many adjunct faculty in the mix, professors in America will be able to bash back against conservatives who are bashing the rights of college faculty to free speech in (and out of) the classroom.

LAST WORD
If a nine-year-old and six-year-old know cheating is wrong, how come so many college students (and professors) can’t manage to take tests, write papers and compose accurate CVs without sliding over to the Dark Side?