Dr. Hankin has presided, in his decades of leadership at WCC, over a continuous decline in the professional status of the faculty—the core of any college or university. When he arrived, there were roughly as many full-time as part-time faculty teaching at WCC. At this time there are perhaps 15% of the total faculty who enjoy full-time employment status and the professional courtesies and benefits that go along with that fast-disappearing status. I work at WCC, as an adjunct-a contract employee who must every semester wait until assignments are finalized, and who receives less than 1/3 the wages of traditional faculty and virtually no benefits. I am also a member of the board of New Faculty Majority, an association dedicated to correcting the injustices that have been visited upon faculty-again the core of any college or university-over many years, And Dr. Hankin is hardly the poster-child for all the ills that have rained down on the people who really run colleges and universities-the faculty-but he has not either been able or willing to confront the real problems of higher education: declining support for the teachers and scholars who are at the heart of the enterprise. Dr. Alan Trevithick, Westchester Community College, LaGuardia Community College, and Fordham University; New Faculty Majority, and blogger at http://cringingliberalelite.blogspot.com/. View Comment