May-June 2005

Reality Television


To the Editor:

Melissa Gregory, in "Extreme Academia" in the January-February issue, missed one program that Hollywood could also find in the academic world: Survivor-Academia. In it, thousands of part-time faculty try to survive for a semester on low pay and few benefits, isolated from their more secure, full-time colleagues. The winner(s) would receive two classes to teach (under the same conditions) for the following semester. Oops, that already exists.

Anne D. Jordan
(English), Adjunct
Eastern Connecticut State University