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Monday, February 17, 2014

Are adjunct faculty finally on the political agenda in Washington?

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http://chronicle.com/blogs/future/2014/02/14/adjuncts-livelihood-lets-make-it-a-political-issue/?cid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en

A new Congressional report indicates this may be so:
http://democrats.edworkforce.house.gov/sites/democrats.edworkforce.house.gov/files/documents/1.24.14-AdjunctEforumReport.pdf

The New Faculty Majority certainly hopes so:
http://www.newfacultymajority.info/equity/

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- Public Information Officer, U.S. Coast Guard (1970-1973) - Communication Director, Case Western Reserve University (1974-1978) - Assistant Professor, Business Law, UT-Austin (1981-1983) - Labor Lawyer and Member, IP Practice Group, Saul Ewing (Philadelphia, PA) (1984-1993) - Professor of Legal Methods, Widener Law School (1993-1996) - Currently university legal counsel and Managing Director of K&C HR Enterprises - 18 published books, including "Al Qaeda Goes to College" (Praeger 2009); "Handbook for Student Law" (Peter Lang 2010, Revised Ed. 2014); "Attorney at Large" (Amazon 2011); "Counter Terrorism Issues" (CRC Press 2013) - 2007 Academic Fellow on Terrorism, Foundation for Defense of Democracies (Israel) - Associate Editor, Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy -Member, FBI Infragard Newark Chapter -Member, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences -Member, Association of Corporate Counsel - Member, NJ Association of Criminal Justice Educators
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