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...that changed dramatically at the end of World War II. A vast cultural apparatus began heaving itself into place across the land. Writers, even raw beginners, found themselves suddenly in great demand. Colleges and universities beckoned with speaking engagements, reading tours and adjunct professorships in creative writing. Symposiums, panels and conferences proliferated, all unable to get along without the presence of a well-known author or two. Foundations and government at every level began making money available to artists and writers; much colorful and highly imaginative prose was funneled away from fiction and into grant applications. And television, with...
...issue was simply one of a "segregated faculty," the media did not consider the issue worthy of note, they say. At the height of this spring's dispute, for example, the Law School announced a list of 10 new appointments--including three new assistant professors and several visiting and adjunct positions. All of the new appointments were white males, perfectly mirroring the all-white and all-male Appointments Committee the Law School had established to do the choosing. Vorenberg, in a summer mailing about the Chambers-Greenberg course, weakened the students' case by using that unusual forum to announce that...
Most older people understand that Social Security is only an adjunct. Consequently, they have lived frugal lives, paid off mortgages, saved and invested. They have been sabotaged by things beyond their control: longer life, lower birth rates, overexpansion of the Social Security program and, most devastating, inflation. Let's not polarize young against old as if the latter had caused the mess...
Glaeser cities Edward Pinhole associate professor of Bio-chemistry at Berkeley as an example of someone drawn away by outside industry. Penhoet recently asked for a reduction of his position at Berkeley to adjunct professor so that he could spend more time with the biotechnological company he had just founded. Penhoet will lose his tenure and have his salary cut, but he says he wants to decrease his involvement on campus to "span the two worlds." It is not possible to surround a university with a most," he says, adding that interaction between universities and industry is vital...
...baby or accept a tenured position at Swarthmore? Fenwick has a similar problem. A former employee of the CIA, he has published a book exposing some of the agency's skulduggeries. Now he must choose between capitalizing on his notoriety via the lecture circuit or accepting an adjunct professorship at the University of Delaware. As if these problems were not taxing enough, they are jointly writing a novel. They are in fact writing this novel...