The phrase "adjunct college" is not commonly used in written English and may cause confusion.
It can be used when referring to a college that offers courses or programs primarily through adjunct faculty, but it is more typical to refer to "adjunct faculty" or "adjunct instructors" instead.
Example: "The adjunct college offers flexible learning options for working professionals."
Alternatives: "community college" or "part-time college".
He lived on a teacher's pension and the fitful income of an adjunct college instructor and sometime actor.
It wanted to attract people over 50 who had master's degrees to enter its program to learn about becoming adjunct college instructors.
Eldridge Lee, a real estate broker and adjunct college professor in Fairburn, Ga., found out that he had Type 2 diabetes more than a decade ago.
In addition to providing a stopgap experience and r?m?uilder for the unemployed and underemployed, adjunct college teaching is particularly relevant to the baby-boom generation by providing an ideal encore career.
"At first, I was the guy who beat Espada," said Mr. Rivera, 36, an adjunct college professor and former political aide who defeated Mr. Espada by nearly two to one in a 2010 Democratic primary.
8 years in Education, including 7 as an adjunct college instructor (composition and literature).
One of the most ambitious efforts is in Philadelphia, where the AFT has launched an initiative, United Academics of Philadelphia, with the goal of representing 15,000 adjuncts at colleges and universities in the metropolitan area.
He said that they are not, as many believe, a fun adjunct to a college experience, but the main reason for the decline in academic standards and quality admissions in many instances.
Anthony P. Giustino, president of the local Civil Service Employees Association, said, "I wonder what would happen if he didn't like him?" When the community college adjunct faculty union complained that its members' pay rate a is third of full-timers', Mr. Bent said full-timers make too much.
He has worked as a prison guard, and as a community college adjunct professor, but mostly now he is a determined activist seeking better educational opportunities for his fellow veterans and other students.
As a retired high school teacher and longtime adjunct at various colleges, I applaud "Adjunct Professors: Low Pay And Hard Going" [May 7].
