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This article surveys the challenges college teachers in the United States will likely face in the near future and argues that overtly political attacks from the Right may be less important than the erosion of tenure entailed in universities' overuse of adjunct labor and the implications of the recent California district court case Hong v. Grant.

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Pedagogy
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2010-01-01
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10.1215/15314200-2009-023
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