April 17, 2009
Why Adjuncts Have an Edge (Except When They Don't)
Do community colleges prefer, or resist, hiring their own part-time instructors for full-time jobs?
Every hiring season, I'm sure to hear from representatives of two groups: those who believe the search process at community colleges is biased in favor of adjuncts (or "internal candidates") and those adjuncts who are angry because they didn't get a full-time job.
Consider the e-mail message I received from "Keith," who wrote recently to insist that "community colleges are not
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