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Created by The Chronicle of Higher Education, the Adjunct Project is intended to be a place where adjuncts might share relevant information, particularly about pay and working conditions. In addition to the Submit and Research options, there is a blog.

By Isaac Sweeney for On Hiring column in The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 10 2011. Sweeney outlines the challenges that adjunct instructors face in the community college system.

Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count. Cutting Edge Series No. 1 (2011) Guide is based on findings from Public Agenda's research into practices for engaging full-time and adjunct faculty in institutional change efforts toward increasing student success as community colleges.

By Melissa E. Lee, from the Do Your Job Better column of The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 13 2011. Lee, an adjunct English instructor at the State University of New York at Canton, offers suggestions to support students who she describes as "at-risk." Her three over-arching ideas are: provide structure in the classroom, show the connection between classroom learning and the real world, and make your students accountable.

Lee's ideas call to mind such GSCC themes as scaffolding, contextualization, caring, college transition, structure, self-efficacy. There are interesting comments, as well.