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Publication Date: 2012-Apr-22
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What Graduate Students Want to Know about Community Colleges, Part 1
Jenkins, Rob
Chronicle of Higher Education, Apr 2012
Facing an academic job market that seems only to get worse each year, many doctoral students are now willing to explore the possibility of a community-college career. In any hiring cycle, about 40 percent of the available teaching positions are at two-year campuses. Moreover, a surprisingly large number of Ph.D. students are actually, and actively, interested in community-college careers, perhaps because they have discovered that what they really enjoy most is teaching. In this article the author presents some of the most common questions of graduate students, along with his typical answers, about teaching in community colleges.
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Information Needs, Community Colleges, College Faculty, Faculty College Relationship, Educational Attainment, Student Attitudes, Teacher Recruitment, Job Applicants, Resumes (Personal), Teaching Experience, Labor Market
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Education Level: Two Year Colleges
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Language: English
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