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The latest news about non-tenured faculty from around the globe. We've got news, reviews, interviews, profiles, professional development tips, opinion and round-ups of everything you need to know to keep up to speed on the ever-changing world of higher education.

FEATURES

THE LAW
A group of part-time community college instructors in Boston filed a lawsuit in November against the state, saying that hundreds of adjunct faculty in Massachusetts’ public higher education system are unfairly denied health care coverage.

ON CAMPUS
At Temple University, adjuncts earn $14,000 for teaching 12 credit hours. They're trying to unionize but, in a now-familiar strategy, college officials are stone-walling. Will Adjunct Awareness Week help? Only time will tell.

EMPLOYMENT
With colleges and universities cutting back because of the recession, the job outlook for graduate students in language and literature is bleaker than ever before.

NEWS

SHOPTALK
Full-time professors oppose the proposed 3 percent pay cut, but part-time faculty union president calls the proposed reduction in salaries inevitable.

GOING THE DISTANCE
A day after the U.S. Department of Education released three-year cohort default rates for federal student loans, for-profit college leaders and lobbyists are breathing a sigh of relief. But policy makers should take note of the high number of low-income and working-class students in these programs at risk of not graduating.

IVORY TOWER
Some affordable colleges offer intimate class sizes, but look at who is teaching the courses.

INNOCENTS ABROAD
In Nigeria, government officials wanted all university lecturers, including part-timers, to have Ph.D.s by 2009 or risk losing their jobs. The year is drawing to a close and the push for Ph.D.s in the college classroom has become mired in politics.

DESK DRAWER

• Missouri Southern State University Considers Replacing Tenure-line Faculty With Limited-Term Lecturers
• Baker University Asks Judge to Dismiss Former Adjunct's Case
• Talks Continue to Avert Faculty Strike at Canadian University
• Montgomery College Part-Timers Land First Contract
• At CSUS 75 Percent of Part-Timers Lose Jobs
• At Citrus College Adjuncts Bear Brunt of Budget Cuts

ANALYSIS

The Decade Google Made You Stupid
Technology has changed your brain over the past ten years, mostly for the worse. Douglas Rushkoff on Internet-driven ADD, virtual-reality delusions, and how computers changed how you think.

IN THE CLASSROOM

Twitter in Higher Education: More than 30 Percent of Faculty Say They Tweet
The results of a recent study reveal a large number of faculty question the value of using the micro-blogging service in an academic setting.

REVIEWS

PAGES
New book argues Ontario's university model is unsustainable. Ontario needs to create new universities with the sole purpose of teaching undergraduates if it hopes to maintain quality and halt the growing use of part-time faculty and large classes.

OPINION

UNCONVENTIONAL WISDOM
For every 100 women who earn a college degree, only 73 men do. These statistics practically shout “boy crisis.” Yet the Civil Rights Commission apparently sees the problem as one of discrimination. The Civil Right Commission misdiagnose the "boy crisis."

FIRST PERSON
The essayist writes: "Teaching in college, especially one with a large international student population, has given me a stark - and unwelcome - illustration of how Americans’ work ethic often pales in comparison with their peers from overseas."