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• In the brawl between George Washington University and the school's part-time faculty union, who'll be the last fighter left standing?
• Thanks to part-timer Becky Villarreal, thousands of adjuncts in Texas now have access to health insurance. And she's not done yet.
• Having a tough time handling high maintenance on-line students? Here are some tips.
• Take a peek behind the scenes of a faculty hiring committee.
• and more...

FEATURES

COVER STORY
Finances have engendered a new language in academe, including phrases like “strategic priorities” and “available resources.” At George Washington, part-time faculty and administrators disagree about whether or not adjuncts on campus are primarily specialists or faculty essential to undergraduate education. They also disagree about whether or not the newly certified part-time faculty union should be recognized.

PROFILE
If someone had told Becky Villarreal that switching from a career as a secondary school teacher to one as a college teacher would have plunged her into a hotbed of activism, she might have had second thoughts. “Believe it or not, the reason I decided to leave K-12 was that it was too political,” says the 43-year-old, whose recent crusade has made it possible for adjuncts at all Texas community colleges to join the state’s health benefits plan.

NEWS

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

SHOPTALK
The University of California has reached a tentative agreement with the University Council-American Federation of Teachers union for a contract extension for lecturers, UC officials announced last week. The agreement, which was announced June 29th, and reached after only eight weeks of negotiation, extends the contract for the UC’s 2,500 lecturers through 2010.

GOING THE DISTANCE
Having a tough time handling high maintenance on-line students? Here are some tips.

DESK DRAWER

• Colorado Part-time Instructors Spotlight Pay & Benefit issues
• Harper Board Raises Pay for Part-Timers and Stiff Arms Union
• P/T Lecturers in UK Fight for Their Rights
• At Boise State U Adjuncts Get Paychecks Then Told to Keep Quiet

OPINION

FIRST PERSON
Is there a connection between language proficiency and privilege? You’re darn tootin’ there is.

IVORY TOWER
Feel like you’re being overlooked for full-time positions? Take a peek behind the scenes of a faculty hiring committee. What you see may surprise you.

LAST WORD
I am convinced that The American Sociological Association’s leadership, conference organizers, and its members are in denial. I would say that they are in serious need of therapeutic help from their colleagues in the American Psychological Association, but I went to the APA conference after the ASA ’s meeting. The issue of the extensive use of temporary faculty in the teaching of psychology was equally absent from the APA’s program schedule.