PowerPoint Presentations from Hell

Here is a great article on what presenters do wrong when using PowerPoint in their presentations. Click Here.

Adjunct Faculty - the Sideshow's Constant Target

Below is a link to interesting article about the way one community college is trying to change the status of teaching adjuncts. What is most interesting is that the college is looking for ways to cut costs now and in the future. Adjuncts are paid little enough as it is, and are excluded from the receiving insitutional benefits that full-time faculty are entitled.

As colleges reduce full-time faculty positions - to save money - it is fairly safe to assume that adjunct rolls will grow. Therefore, will higher education one day be a place where all faculty are part-time with no benefits? Interesting future! This trend of part-time faculty stripped of benefits will drive more good brains away from academe, similar to the process that classroom regulations have done to drive devoted folks out of teaching in public schools.

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/08/11/adjuncts

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