Highlights

Feature Story
Strength in numbers
Where part-time faculty have joined forces to fight for pay equity, their impact has reached critical mass

Campus Clips
Students learn harsh realities of plastic
Do college policies foster senior slump?

News and Trends
Labor board tells Temple to bargain
Distance ed is not catching fire in Calif.
Education International reaffirms role of public education
Bye-bye budget surplus
Boycott 'The Music Man' tour

Speakout
Do today's students have a social conscience?

Newsmakers
Lively album features labor and protest songs
A poet for the people

Washington Wire
AFT urges INS to hold off on new monitoring rule

Technology
Higher education's newest blight: degree inflation

TechNotes
Temple pulls the plug on its Virtual University
Check out Yahoo! education site

Tax Talk
EGTRRA, EGTRRA: Read all about it!