Public Universities May Place Adjuncts on Full-Time Track
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State officials are recommending that New York’s public universities mine their ranks of adjunct faculty for the 2,000 new full-time faculty the universities are seeking to hire by 2013. But the proposal is meeting resistance from many tenured professors, who say giving preference to part-time staff could restrict faculty searches and lower the quality of their departments.
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