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A disturbing trend: institutions have grown increasingly dependent on adjunct faculty over the last few decades, and scholars of color are ever present among this group.
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Dr. Ansley Abraham and Dr. Anthony DePass started their academic careers as part-time adjunct instructors, as many young scholars find they must.
Abraham was an adjunct for a little more than a year. "I got out of it because teaching wasn't where I wanted to go. I was more interested in research and policy," explains the sociologist, who has directed a program for minority doctoral scholars at the Southern Regional Education Board since 1993.
DePass started teaching at Long Island University-Brooklyn as an adjunct before completing his Ph.D. in molecular and cellular biology and moving to the tenure track. Since 2002, he ...
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