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The latest news about non-tenured faculty from around the globe. We've got news, reviews, interviews, profiles, professional development tips, opinion and round-ups of everything you need to know to keep up to speed on the ever-changing world of higher education.

FEATURES

More University Students Save Money By Taking Cheaper Community College Courses
Community colleges in the Northeast region are doing brisk business this summer with students from four-year universities. The students are taking advantage of increasingly flexible transfer policies to load up on cheap, convenient credits that will help them graduate more quickly and at a lower expense.

U.S. Government Sting Nets 15 For-Profit Colleges
A government inquiry of 15 for-profit colleges found four cases in which campus officials encouraged applicants to commit fraud and examples at every school of officials lying about or misrepresenting their programs.

Texas Professors Wary of New Controversial Law
Passed unanimously in 2009, Texas Legislative House Bill 2504 is the first of its kind in the nation. Under the new law, all public Texas universities will be required to provide an array of free, detailed and public information on their websites about courses, professors and the cost of attending school. Faculty across the state have labeled it an attack on their academic freedom.

NEWS

TECHNICALLY SPEAKING
Compared with traditional textbooks, the iPad and other devices for reading digital bookshave the potential to save on textbook costs in the long term, to provide students with more and better information faster, and — no small matter — to lighten the typical college student's backpack. Yet the track record on campus so far for e-readers has been bumpy.

SHOPTALK
Adjunct faculty organizers thought they had a clear majority behind the movement to organize. The final vote, however, proved otherwise.

INNOCENTS ABROAD
At Uganda's largest university, the Makerere University Academic Staff Association (MUASA) has backed the university's new reforms, saying they will strengthen the quality of education and reduce wastage of resources. The reforms, however, call for part-time lecturers to lose their jobs.

DESK DRAWER

• U. of I. instructor fired over Catholic church teachings offered another job
• Adjunct becomes department chair at Purdue U
• Washtenaw Community College considers converting part-time faculty to contract employees to avoid state pension contribution
• Criticism follows University of Buffalo firing of of Hebrew instructor
• LEO and University of Michigan hammer out new agreement

REVIEWS

PAGES
The utility of On the Market is unmistakable. This is because On the Market is above all a professional handbook. It addresses the quality of one's scholarship only in the most peripheral terms, and addresses larger questions about the nature of truth or the scholar's role in society not at all.

PAGES
Just in time for the president’s annual vacation, Samuel Jacobs presents the definitive list of what Obama’s been reading to date, from Theodore Roosevelt biographies to George Pelecanos novels.

OPINION

UNCONVENTIONAL WISDOM
The lure of quick and easy education is no more realistic than the promise of quick weight loss without dieting or exercise.

FIRST PERSON
Recently, a number of influential writers have put forth the argument that going to college may not be for everyone. A graduate student argues in favor of higher education—even if Bill Gates never finished his degree at Harvard.