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• For well over a decade, college instructors have been complaining about students who are not only apathetic and unmotivated but who belittle and resist efforts to educate them.
• What should you do when discussions about race, religion and politics boil over in your classroom?
• Is there affirmative action in grading?
• Our cartoonist Matthew Henry Hall writes about the Adjunctocracy.
• and more...

FEATURES

INTERVIEW
For many years, those in higher education posited that relying on large numbers of part-time faculty must have some impact on the quality of education. Dr. Dan Jacoby talks about his study on the impact of part-time faculty on graduation rates at community colleges. Turns out the problem isn’t part-timers, but their sub-standard employment conditions.

THE TRENDS
For well over a decade, college instructors have been complaining about students who are not only apathetic and unmotivated but who belittle and resist efforts to educate them. Without sugar coating it, Paul M. Levitt flatly declares, “many college kids are a sorry lot. Preoccupied with their hair, their clothes, their cars, they have never developed a critical turn of mind and have no interest in doing so.”

NEWS

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Equal Rights Legislation for Adjuncts.
Kiss Me I’m a Professor.
Internet Abbreviations.
Christian Student Cheaters.

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
At the University of Idaho and Reykjavík University administrators might have, perhaps, stumbled upon a combined yet unique solution to the overuse of non-tenured faculty in undergraduate education.

GOING THE DISTANCE
Faculty teaching online courses might, at times, feel the desire to dial 911 when they need help with a course. Columnist Steven Pyser has something better: try tapping into a CoP.

DESK DRAWER

• CUNY Adjuncts Don Turkey Costumes to Protest Treatment
• Part-Time Faculty At Wayne State U. Demonstrate Before Negotiating
• St. Thomas University Locks Out P-Timers Rather Than Bargain
• Union Criticizes “Blight” of Fixed-Term Academic Posts
• GW Adjunct Faculty Finalize Contract

ANALYSIS

Affirmative Action Grading Crime Scenes
There have been numerous pieces written about affirmative action and admissions. Is there affirmative action in grading, as well?

IN THE CLASSROOM

Managing Hot Moments in the Classroom
What should you do when discussions about race, religion and politics boil over in your classroom? Our writer offers tips for turning what could be hot moments into opportunities for learning.

REVIEWS

PAGES
In Quick Hits for Educating Citizens faculty will find tips and suggestions to help get students to put down their iPods and cell phones and into community service.

OPINION

FIRST PERSON

Life as an adjunct can, frankly, be dog-eat-dog sometimes. Our essayist suggests ways for part-timers to deal with the competition.

IVORY TOWER

Despite the best efforts of some of the richest universities in the United States to diversify their faculties, the fact remains that 90 percent of professors are still white. What gives with the white bread professorate in America?

A LITTLE RAILLERY

Our cartoonist Matthew Henry Hall writes about the Adjunctocracy. Well, actually, he doesn’t quite understand what the Adjunctocracy is. However, since when did a little thing like that ever stop Matt from sharing his opinions? Matthew Henry Hall offers up several possible “-ocracies” for higher ed. We’re voting for the “chocolatocracy.”