by Patricia Lesko

THIS WILL BE the last issue of The Adjunct Advocate which I will edit. Beginning with the May/June issue, Bob Robinson will take over the editorial duties from me. It is with mixed emotions that I relinquish my duties. I have thoroughly enjoyed working with the writers, and editing their submissions. Just a few months ago, I went to the contributing editors with a mandate: make your contributions more fact-based. This included the opinion columnists, as well as the news writers.

This was no small request. Even though this magazine reaches tens of thousands of adjunct faculty, it is a small business which relies on a circle of contributing editors, free-lance feature and news writers. To ask those writers to, in essence, put more time into their articles was a risky proposition. Adjuncts (and most of the writers who contribute to the magazine are adjunct faculty) have little spare time to do extensive research. One writer quit, in fact, irate that we could not pay her $1,000 to prepare for and conduct an interview.

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