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Some 44 percent of American university and college faculty are part-time, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
Low pay and lack of benefits for adjunct faculty is coming under new scrutiny for its effect on the educations of their students.
The Office of the Provost has announced that UMass Amherst has been recognized as a 2023 Delphi Award finalist for the university's successful work toward supporting non-tenure track, contingent and/or adjunct faculty. For the past six years, The Pul
Professors could be better about building relationships with students, many of whom hope for assistance with career planning and networking. But students may not realize their role in connecting.
Survey on adjunct faculty working conditions finds that COVID-19 made an already bad situation more dire.