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ARCHIVE CONTENT

• Faculty Bloggers Worldwide on Student Plagiarism
• Central Connecticut State Lecturer Snared in Civil Suit Over Plagiarism Charge
• Is Humiliation an Ethically Appropriate Response to Plagiarism?
• Tomorrow’s Promises — Why the Kindle Won’t Have a Dramatic Impact on College Course Materials for at least Five Years
• and more...

FEATURES

THE CLASSROOM
Amazon's Kindle e-book reader has the potential to reshape how textbooks are used in the college classroom. However, despite the Kindle's potential, as long as Amazon.com demands a 60 percent cut from textbook publishers, Kindle will remain a bit player in the high-stakes (multi-billion dollar) college textbook market.

THE NET
If you think you're the only one who's stuck with students who plagiarize, think again. It's a world-wide epidemic. Read about what faculty worldwide have to say about the challenges of handling plagiarists.

THE LAW
In 2006, history lecturer Ronald Moss assigned a term paper. While reading the papers, he noticed that two of them had striking similarities. Moss accused student Matthew Coster of plagiarism, and Coster was subsequently expelled. Now, Ronald Moss is embroiled in a civil court case filed by the Coster's parents in an effort to clear their son's name and reverse the expulsion.

NEWS

INNOCENTS ABROAD
At Makerere University, in Uganda, administrators are a year behind in paying the university's part-time lecturers. Booker Sentongo, who has been a part-time lecturer in the Department of Geography, is due $800 and is holding the grades of his 200+ students ransom until he gets paid. His actions have sparked debate about higher education throughout Africa.

SHOPTALK
In Canada, like in the U.S., universities have embraced neoliberalism. The result has been explosive growth in the number of part-time and sessional faculty. Canada's unions, the author argues, must coordinate bargaining efforts in order to improve conditions for Canada's contingent faculty.

GOING THE DISTANCE
Migrating information from paper to electronic form—and being able to access those items in their electronic forms—is a regular concern for both instructor and student in any web-enhanced or web-delivered course.

DESK DRAWER

• Part-timers Losing Money
• Contract Faculty at Canada's York University Still Off the Job
• Policy May Force French Lecturer to Bid Adieu
• Pace University Part-Timers Land First Contract
• End of Mandatory Retirement Frustrates Canadian Part-time Professors

OPINION

IVORY TOWER
In mid-November, 2008, Loye Young was dismissed from his position as a part-time faculty member at Texas A & M International University. Young had told his students that plagiarism in his course assignments would result in public humiliation in addition to any punishment doled out under the auspices of university policies. He subsequently found that half a dozen of his students had engaged in plagiarism.