Word: adjuncts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...California State University, Long Beach. Edwards, the author of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (copies sold: 1.4 million), has limbered the lobes of executives at companies as varied as IBM and Patagonia by helping them learn the basic perceptual skills required for drawing. Says Robert Kelley, adjunct professor of business administration at Carnegie-Mellon University: "The vital question American businesses face is to determine if they are going to require creativity on a regular basis. If so, they need talent in place, and no one knows how to do this very well...
...obvious reasons, most research on violent urban subcultures is done with computer printouts, not with tape recorders and notebooks on the mean streets. Not so with Carl S. Taylor, adjunct professor of criminal justice at Michigan State University and director of the Criminal Justice Program at Jackson Community College. In 1980 Taylor set out to study Detroit's two biggest and most powerful youth gangs: Young Boys Inc. and the Pony Down. In the process, he encountered four additional groups. The resulting book, Dangerous Society, published in February by Michigan State University Press, provides a harrowing portrait...
Even some conservative bastions of the medical establishment have become interested in mind-body therapies as an adjunct to conventional care. The American Medical Association's Council on Scientific Affairs gingerly explored this heretofore off-limits topic at a meeting last week. Leading medical schools, such as those at Harvard and UCLA, are including mind-body research in their course offerings...
...addition to co-hosting a local TV show and doing daily radio commentary, Koch is an adjunct professor at New York University and writes a weekly column for The New York Post--a contribution he says has boosted the tabloid's Friday circulation...
...debate points up a fundamental division that has burdened the gay-rights cause for decades. Notes Thomas Stoddard, executive director of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund and an adjunct professor of law at New York University: "The gay movement is actually based upon two principles that collide. One is privacy, and the other is disclosure, the process of coming out." Those focused on privacy are responding to society as it exists, with its emotional and sometimes physical perils for overt homosexuals. Those favoring disclosure are more concerned with society as they hope it may become, with tolerance...