Adjuncts Are Better Teachers Than Tenured Professors, Study Finds - 0 views
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Mathieu Plourde on 10 Sep 13the results offer evidence that designating full-time faculty members to focus chiefly on teaching, particularly at research-intensive universities like Northwestern, may not be the cause for alarm that many see. It may even improve students' learning. "Perhaps," they wrote, "the growing practice of hiring a combination of research-intensive tenure-track faculty members and teaching-intensive lecturers may be an efficient and educationally positive solution to a research university's multitasking problem."