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Adjuncts lack support : Naturejobs

Non-tenure-track faculty members don't get enough mentoring or professional development.
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Three-quarters of US academic institutions polled in a survey reported increasing their numbers of full-time non-tenure-track — or adjunct — faculty members in the past decade. More than one-third have “significantly increased” hiring of part-time adjuncts in the same period, finds Values, Practices and Faculty Hiring Decisions of Academic Leaders, a study that will be published in early 2013 in the journal Liberal Education. (...) - NatureJobs, Nature 491,786 (2012)

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Funding for Texas Cancer Research Agency in Limbo

Texas legislators are threatening to cut off funding for the state's troubled $3 billion cancer research agency unless the organization can resolve problems with how it awards money.(...) - ScienceInsider, by Jocelyn Kaiser on 15 January 2013

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