SEMICOLONS EXERCISE #2 
 
1.  College and universities from the United Kingdom to the United States have different levels of rank. 
 

2. In the United States a teacher may be full-time; full-time teachers may be professors, lecturers, or 
instructors meanwhile, in the United Kingdom, full-time teachers may be professors, readers, and 
lecturers. 
 

3. Interestingly enough, some teachers may not be full-time; some faculty work as part-time faculty. 
 

4. Part-time faculty are simply called part-time faculty or adjuncts; adjunct is the name given to faculty 
who are often not full-time. 
 

5.  Adjunct faculty are very important to the institution; however, the institution may not be as important to 
the adjuncts. 
 

6. Some adjunct faculty work at many different colleges; other adjunct faculty may work in different 
departments on the same campus. 
 
7. Some reasons why part-time faculty are different from their full-time counterparts include: education, 
the ability to do research, funding available, personal obligations, etc. 
 
8. Regardless of whether or not a faculty member is part-time or full-time, a student should still give the 

teacher their full attention; some part-time faculty are absolutely indispensable to the department and 
they choose to teacher part-time voluntarily. 
 
9. For example, in one department, the most effect faculty member is a woman who works part-time 

voluntarily; you see, she has two young children at home. 
 

10. In a sense, she would rather be a full-time mother than a full-time teacher; in another department, we 
have a young man who is a full-time lawyer. 
 
11. The young man works full-time as a lawyer however, he loves to discuss the law. 
 

12. Because this young man works full-time as a lawyer, he is privy to many changes within the law; as a 
result, he is one of the most knowledgeable criminal justice teachers on campus. 
 
13. Depending on the funding situation within the school, a department may be composed of many part-

time faculty members; other departments may be composed of more full-time faculty members. 
 

14.  The difference is not the quality of teaching; simply, the difference is strongly rooted in who is 
available to teach full-time and what is the funding available to pay full-time teachers. 
 

15. In some cases, adjuncts and part-time faculty are tough to find; in many cases, graduate students or 
advanced undergraduate students are hired to help to teach basic-level classes. 
 

16. Regardless of your teacher's status, it is important to respect them; again, you need to appreciate the 
fact that they may just like doing the job (as they may have other full-time occupations).