Studies link part-time college faculty to worse education

by E Wayne Ross on December 3, 2008

USA Today: Studies link part-time college faculty to worse education

It’s no secret that colleges and universities are relying increasingly on part-time instructors or other faculty who are neither tenured nor on track for tenure. But a flurry of recent studies draw troubling conclusions about what kind of impact that is having on the quality of a student’s education.