For Online Adjuncts, a Seller's Market

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

By DAN CARNEVALE

Orleans, Mich.

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 says.

"I'm afraid my schools will go,...

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