March 28, 2003

Part-Time Faculty Members and Unions

To the Editor:

Scott Smallwood's "United We Stand?" (February 21) fails to mention why all part-time faculty members should have the option of forming their own, separate unions: In nearly all colleges, full-time faculty members serve as managers of part-timers, insofar as they participate in the hiring and evaluating of adjuncts. This conflict of interest between part-time and full-time faculty members explains why faculty unions have been derelict in their federally mandated duty

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