by Chris Cumo

MARY JO SOUTHERN once taught English as an adjunct in North Carolina. Since then she has spent 20 years in textbook publishing: 9 years as a sales representative for several publishers and the last 11 as editor at HarperCollins, Prentice Hall and Houghton Mifflin. Today she is senior sponsoring editor for developmental English at Houghton Mifflin and the creator of Adjuncts.com, a web site of lesson plans, test questions, worksheets, discussion prompts and discussion forums for part-time college instructors. She has more responsibility and clout than she ever knew as an adjunct.

Southern is among a legion of adjuncts who have traded the lectern for the office.

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