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By looking at the labor history of academia, you can see the roots of a crisis in higher education that has been decades in the making.

A compilation of recent College of Psychology and Liberal Arts faculty presentations and publications

They are key contributors to student educational success, yet relatively few receive adequate professional development, write Anna Conway and Thomas J. Tobin. Some college and university adjunct instructors are fresh out of graduate studies, confident that teaching college students will be their career, while others come onto the teaching path after working in industry. Rebecca (we’ve changed her name to protect her privacy) was the latter. An attorney who had argued cases in Milwaukee and Chicago for many years, Rebecca had taken a break from practicing law to raise her daughters.

Colleges have certainly changed the way they pay their professors. HowStuffWorks Now looks at six questionable labor practices.

Plus, Washington State will consider a trust fund for Medicaid babies.