October 14, 2008

University Official Offers Harsh Critique of Policies Toward Adjuncts

By Jeffrey J. Selingo

St. Louis

Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest private employer, long criticized for its workplace policies, is a “more-honest employer” of part-time workers than colleges that employ thousands of adjunct faculty members. That was the harsh message delivered to a group of college human-resources officials here on Monday by one of their own: Angelo-Gene Monaco, associate vice president for human resources and employee relations at the University of Akron.

Mr. Monaco's presentation was a

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