At colleges, faculties are graying and staying

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When Jim Sajovic started teaching at the Kansas City Art Institute 42 years ago, a wave of baby boomers caught up in post-1960s radicalism swarmed the campus.

The school experimented with coed dorm rooms, and students slept in class after all-night parties that included group showers, he recalled with a laugh.

Since then, the school has evolved, becoming “saner, more structured, more conservative,” he said.

What hasn’t changed is his love of teaching. That’s the main reason the “60-something” Sajovic hasn’t retired — and hasn’t even given the subject much thought.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/03/30/3526328/at-colleges-faculties-are-graying.html#storylink=cpy

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1. Not good news for those searching for a job in academia.

Faculty are retiring later, teaching more and larger classes, and schools are hiring more and more temporary and 'adjunct' faculty with no benefits and no continuing contracts.