adjunct
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M.P.H., director of the University of Victoria's Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research and an adjunct professor at Boston University.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
Many schools relied on adjunct professors during the boom to manage the influx of computer-science students, but those schools that added tenure-track faculty could be in a tight spot.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
On adjunct instruction, he said an ABA standard unfairly restricts the ability of adjunct professors to teach first-year law students.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Schiffman was the study's corresponding author and an adjunct professor in the joint department of biomedical engineering at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
As an adjunct to this increase in traffic, the population at the highway rest areas virtually exploded.
From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen
"Healthy dietary and lifestyle practices should remain the foundation for obesity treatment and management, with medications such as GLP-1 receptor agonists used as adjuncts."
From Science Daily ● Jan. 28, 2026
Administrators rely too heavily on student reviews when deciding whether to retain adjuncts, assistant professors and even associates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025
“Some universities will pay adjuncts about $5,000 a semester per class.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024
Hiring adjuncts with industry experience could advise students how to find entry-level work in their future career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2024
I rang for the tea, and the waiter, reappearing with his magic clue, brought in by degrees some fifty adjuncts to that refreshment, but of tea not a glimpse.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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