The Chronicle of Higher Education - February 24, 2012

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Volume LVIII, Number 25
Federal Budget’s Details Offer Grist for Debates
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JEWEL SAMAD, AFP, GETTY IMAGES
President Obama speaks to students at Northern Virginia Community College about his 2013 budget,
including the $8-billion Community College to Career Fund, a job-training effort.
Charts: ; Highlights and
details of proposed budgets
for higher education
and science. A4
President Obama ; asked
for an increase
in spending on basic
research. A6
Budget would ; increase
money for Fulbright program
but cut other international
education. A8
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P;;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;; budget proposal for the 2013 ;scal year, released last week, re-
af;rms his commitment to com-
munity colleges and college access,
directing scarce federal resources
to job-training and student-aid pro-
grams.
The budget, which would pro-
vide $10-billion for job-training
programs, would also increase
the maximum Pell Grant by $85,
And in any case, lobbyists and
others recognize that the bud-
get document released last week
is only a starting point for what
promise to be lengthy and intense
negotiations with Congress over
spending levels. If recent history is
any guide, those negotiations are
unlikely to get serious until after
the November election.
The budget proposes spend-
ing $30.7-billion for the National
Institutes of Health, the same as
the current year, but it proposes
new grant-management policies
that would increase the number
of research grants by 7 percent. It
would expand and make permanent
the research-and-development tax
credit.

2013
BUDGET

A Simple Spreadsheet Strikes
a Nerve Among Adjuncts

The Adjunct Project
at a Glance

Joshua A. Boldt, a writing
instructor at the U. of Geor-
gia, created a Google docu-
ment on February 2, ask-
ing fellow adjuncts to enter
information about their pay
and working conditions.
Here is a snapshot as of
the middle of last week:
More than ; 18,000 views

; 786 entries from
adjuncts in 46 states,
the District of Columbia,
and Canada
Pay per three-credit ;
course ranges from
$600 (South Suburban
College, outside of
Chicago) to $9,500
(Carnegie Mellon U.).

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E;;;;;;;;; by his fellow adjunct professors who had gathered for a national
meeting last month in Washington,
D.C., Joshua A. Boldt ;ew home
to Athens, Ga., opened his laptop,
and created a Google document.
On his personal blog, the 32-
year-old writing instructor im-
plored colleagues to contribute to
the publicly editable spreadsheet,
detailing their pay per course and
other working conditions, not-
ing their institutions and depart-
ments. The goal of the crowd-
sourcing project, Mr. Boldt said,
was to praise universities that treat
adjunct professors well and “out”
those institutions that do not.
“Let’s combine forces,” he
wrote. “Fill in as much informa-
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INSIDE
The Fortunate Few ;
Gifts to higher education rose substantially
in 2011, but most of the money went to just
25 percent of colleges. A20
In Study Abroad, Men Are Hard to Find
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R;;;; ;;;;;; freely admits: “I’m a perfect example of a guy who doesn’t go abroad.”
By the fall of his junior year,
he was juggling a double major, in
economics and political science,
and was slated to take over as edi-
tor in chief of The Northwestern
Chronicle, a weekly newspaper.
His brothers in Sigma Phi Epsilon
elected him president of the fra-
ternity.
His life on campus was full, so
why leave?
Many male students like Mr.
Fazio don’t—women far outnum-
ber men in study abroad. In the
2009-10 academic year, women
accounted for nearly two-thirds

ANDRE W A. NELLES FOR THE CHRONICLE
Ryan Fazio (right), a junior at Northwestern U., is studying
in Prague with four of his fraternity brothers.
of 270,600 American students go-
ing overseas. Indeed, the propor-
tion of men studying overseas has
remained the same—or ;atlined,
to put it less charitably—for more
than two decades. What is it, edu-
cators wonder, about study abroad

Flipped Classrooms ;
It looks like students
are in charge. In a way,
they are. A16
Academe Laid Bare ;
Critical university stud-
ies ;nds its place as a
discipline. Section B

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