Las Vegas Sun: Part-time professors becoming prevalent
Struggling to keep pace with rapid growth in student enrollment while living within cash-strapped budgets, local universities increasingly are relying on part-time — lesser paid — instructors.
More than 70 percent of the faculty at the Community College of Southern Nevada and Nevada State College in Henderson are adjunct or part-time instructors, while at UNLV, nearly half of the faculty instructors are part timers.