Human Rights: March 2007 Archives

Dr. Lars Mazzola provides here a delightful discussion of the issues involved in part-time teaching in the United States, including the lack of equity for Part-time faculty, who now comprise about 40 percent of the workforce, a Ten Point Program for Part-time faculty, a discussion of the composition of Part-time faculty, trends that affect part-time faculty, variables that can be adjusted to improve their lot, an example of bad math that is used against them, examples of good math that is used to alleviate their condition, and suggestions on how to support the cause, the well-being, of hundreds of thousands of highly qualified part-time university lecturers in the U.S.

In an ominous hardening of policy, North Korea appears to be punishing its citizens with longer sentences in abusive prisons if they are caught crossing the border to China or have been forcibly repatriated by Beijing, Human Rights Watch said in a new briefing paper released today.