January 26, 2001

Part-Time Faculty Members Try to Organize Nationally

By COURTNEY LEATHERMAN

Many think the time is ripe to improve their pay and working conditions

After seven years of shuttling among five campuses, teaching 16 courses a year as a part-timer in the Massachusetts community-college system, Michael Dubson felt defeated by his profession. In an act of defiance, he placed an ad in Poets & Writers magazine, calling for "Adjunct Horror Stories." He rented a P.O. box, and the responses poured in.

Now, more than three years later, Mr. Dubson has edited the

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