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Word: adjuncts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...coming field," said Steven M. Wise, who will teach the course as an adjunct professor in the spring. "Harvard both is offering the course because it is an up and coming area, and the fact that they are offering it...makes it more difficult for other schools to dismiss it as having no intellectual value...

Author: By Kirsten G. Studlien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HLS to Offer Animal Rights Course | 7/9/1999 | See Source »

...added muscle to rumors that the new Israeli leader will move fast toward a peace agreement with Syria. Last week Barak was still finalizing his government, but he seems intent on starting off his term with a dramatic gesture. Peace with Syria would fit the bill. An expected adjunct agreement with Lebanon would mean an end to the state of war on all of Israel's borders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel's New Syrian View | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...adjunct faculty member at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro (yes, that Jonesboro) and a student of all sorts of killing, Grossman has become the point man in the war against violent video games. His main assertion is that violent video games such as Doom or Quake help break down the natural inhibitions we have against killing. In fact, the military has begun using Doom-like games to improve so-called fire rates--encouraging soldiers to pull the trigger in battle. Only about one-fifth of U.S. soldiers in combat in World War II fired their weapons, a rate that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Video Games Really So Bad? | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

...Over the last five years, people have become increasingly aware of casualization where tenure track professors are retiring, and their positions aren't replaced," Mitchell said. "Instead, adjunct teachers and graduate students are being hired to do the same teaching...

Author: By Matthew G.H. Chun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Union Power in Ivory Towers | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

However, undergraduates are being taught and evaluated more by non-permanent teachers than by full-time faculty. In a study recently released by the GESO, it was reported that nearly 70 percent of undergraduate classroom instruction at Yale is performed by graduate students or adjunct instructors while faculty only perform 30 percent of this instruction...

Author: By Matthew G.H. Chun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Union Power in Ivory Towers | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

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