Argues that the Virginia Community College System must begin to offer partial benefits and more equitable monetary compensation to part-time instructors. Contends that full-time faculty must help find solutions to the exploitation of adjunct faculty. (NB)

Compares the 21st century adjunct faculty member to the 19th century sharecropper. Explains that sharecroppers thought they were getting a chance at equality, but instead they were bound to a revised system of indenture. Claims that the status quo will win out in the educational system, as with the sharecroppers. (NB)

Argues that the way to solve the growing imbalance between part-time and full-time instructors in the Virginia Community College System is to establish a permanent part-time category for teachers, which includes partial benefits and time for advising and committee work. (NB)