April 30, 2004

For Online Adjuncts, a Seller's Market

By DAN CARNEVALE

Part-time professors, in demand, fill many distance-education faculties

Colloquy: Join an online discussion about whether a reliance on adjunct faculty members, spurred by a boom in distance learning, is hurting the quality of online education.By DAN CARNEVALE

Ruth Achterhof won't say how many courses she teaches, for fear that her employers will think the workload is too much for her to handle.

But the work is enough to earn her about $90,000 per year, she

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