It provides online courses for college instructors who want to augment their classroom lessons, she said.
In 1960, 75 percent of college instructors were full-time tenured or tenure-track professors; today only 27 percent are.
It wanted to attract people over 50 who had master's degrees to enter its program to learn about becoming adjunct college instructors.
Mr. Paul was pre-med, but he gravitated to economics and political science classes, though he said his college instructors mainly caused him to doubt his own instincts.
Yet they have been used unwisely, with predictable results, as United States military serial numbers, on driver's licenses and even by college instructors to post students' grades.
But her college instructors say that even well-run high school courses often fail to teach what students need to know in college.
Six hundred preparatory school and college instructors came to New York every year for the reading and marking of batch examinations.
The idea that a handful of college instructors and student teachers in the school of education at the University of Massachusetts could slow the corporatization of public education in America is both quaint and ridiculous.
Some college instructors invite undergraduates to join them for tea or a beer in the nearest dive so they can continue their in-class discussions of Shakespearean sonnets or interpretations of the Constitution.
Thanks to search engines like Google, college instructors have become adept at spotting those shop-worn, downloadable papers that circulate freely on the Web, and can even finger passages that have been ripped off from standard texts and reference works.
On Oct. 24, 1998, Kristine Kupka, 28, a pregnant honors student at Baruch College in Manhattan, disappeared after leaving her Brooklyn home with one of her former college instructors, the police said.
