Sandra ...
I teach at La Salle U in Philadelphia. I have been chair for
approximately 12 years. Throughout this time it has been our policy to not
use adjuncts in any other capacity than to teach and have office hours for
the students in their classes to meet about class matters. Given
I would like to post the following position announcement.
Thanks,
Paul W. Killian
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT
Assistant Professor, Psychology: Full-time, tenure track position at
the University of North Carolina at Pembroke beginning August 1999.
All basic research specialty areas considered but
As someone has already pointed out, adjunct experiences are as varied as
the colleges which hire them. and Rick Adams wrote of some of his personal
experiences. There is one, however, that I think needs a response.
At 02:39 PM 2/8/99 -0500, Rick Adams wrote:
At my institution (and at most
Nathalie,
Three quick reactions to your students' argument about "no harm, no foul":
1) The argument would only hold if no better treatment is available. So, if
magnets on the joints only have placebo effects, and if some other treatment
has been demonstrated to be more effective than placebo,
TIPSters:
Hi. Recently, Nathalie Cote, regarding placebos, wrote...
A couple of my students responded with comments along the lines of "If you
show that it doesn't really work, you've taken away something. Even if it was
only the power of suggestion, that actually helped some people, and by
I suppose there is a "caveat emptor suckerus" element to some things
that have no empirical evidence in favor of them but I argue in favor of
debunking these things by noting that following the false but easy
(miracle diet) route will often obscure the way to the true but difficult (eat
Jim Clark wrote:
The harm is when individuals spend exorbitant amounts of money
for misguided "relief." I remember reading a story about a women
who lost a baby in childbirth, spending hundreds of dollars to
call telephone psychics who putatively put her in communication
with her baby.
Mike Scoles writes on 8 Feb 99,:
Nathalie -
The Frontline video, "Prisoners of Silence" (about facilitated
communication) does an excellent job of answering this question.
Not necessarily. In fact, the showing of that video was what prompted
some of my students to say that sometimes a
Gerald wrote:
My tentative "read" of things is that crack is impure from the
standpoint of chemicals (baking soda) being added to it in the
conversion process, and some of these chemicals are retained in
the crack. It may be considered more pure because it is more
concentrated (or is it
Bob wrote:
I know of no accredited colleges that are able to routinely hire folks
without a masters degree except in the career preparation
programs (e.g.,
HVAC, electronics, construction, aviation, etc.). So far as I
know, all of
the accrediting agencies pretty much require a masters
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