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IN THIS ISSUE

• Look back over ten years of adjunct advocacy
• Why not give them all an A?
• Hybrid courses offer flexibility, as well as personalized instruction
• The Student Body is a collection of funny, sad, sardonic and tender tales
• Evaluating teaching evaluations
• and more...

FEATURES

COVER STORY
In 1992, the Adjunct Advocate debuted as a 20-page newsletter. We’ve prepared a retrospective in which we revisit past issues, as well as content.

THE HEROES
Lawyers from a Washington law firm took on Microsoft and won $90 million on behalf of the company’s perma-temps. Now, the firm’s representing the state’s part-time faculty.

THE JOB
Why not just give them all an A? A treatise on adjunct faculty and grade inflation.

NEWS

INNOCENTS ABROAD
Teaching English in France requires a bit of bonne chance.

GOING THE DISTANCE
Hybrid courses offer students the flexibility of Internet instruction along with the personalized support of classroom interaction.

THE COMMUTER
A roadside emergency kit could save the day.

DESK DRAWER

• When Are Teachers Auto Workers? When They Are N.Y.U. Adjuncts The United Auto Workers defeated the American Federation of Teachers in an election to represent part-time adjunct professors at New York University.
• Part-time Faculty Member Arrested for Harassing Student Sometimes breaking up is hard to do.
• Chemeketa Community College Cuts Adjunct Jobs to Balance Budget Community college cuts 20 percent of adjunct-taught courses to balance the budget.

REVIEWS

PAGES
The Student Body is a collection of funny, sad, sardonic, self-effacing and tender tales about professors and students and the lives they lead.

OPINION

UNCONVENTIONAL WISDOM
Bad evaluations can cost an adjunct her/his job. But who's evaluating the evaluations?

FIRST PERSON
How would the sages have responded to current educational advances?

THE LAST WORD
I never thought I have this job for ten years. Now, I'm beginning to think I might just have it for another ten.