Maria C. Maisto went to Capitol Hill last fall to correct what she saw as a misperception about colleges’ response to the nation’s new health-care law. By the time she left, she had accomplished something bigger. She had gotten lawmakers talking about higher education’s reliance on adjuncts and how their working conditions make it difficult for them to do their best work. “There’s a huge lack of understanding of what it means to be in the adjunct world,” Rep. George Miller, a Democrat from California, said during the hearing at which Ms. Maisto testified.

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by Audrey Williams June, The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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