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Sarah, This is not really the answer you were hoping for. Our local brag rag had this front page story this morning: Universities Rely More Than Ever on Part-timers (Reno Gazette-Journal March 24, 2006) http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060324/NEWS10/603240388/1002 Just a few quotes from the article: "Part-time instructors -- also called adjunct faculty or LOAs for the letters of appointment they sign each semester -- represent almost half the faculty at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and more than half of the faculty at the University of Nevada, Reno." "Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno [where I teach] has 165 full-time instructors and 403 part-time teaching faculty. Western Nevada Community College in Carson City has 79 full-time faculty and 295 part-time instructors." We are limited to 10 credit hours a semester and the rate of pay varies from institution to institution. While we wait for the legislature to meet next year and discuss pay increases, all of us adjunct faculty struggle with the knowledge that, in the foreseeable future, full-time tenure-track positions are not in the offering and that our valuable efforts are at least recognized. Here, at least, we have some wonderful support from the "full-timers." Jerry L. Parker
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