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Published on June 4, 1982 in he Higher Education Daily, this article, entitled "NY Faculty Protest Move to Increase Use of Part-Timers," reported that NYS faculty unions attacked NYS Education Commissioner Gordon Ambach’s proposal to let part-timers fill more than half the faculty slots at both public and private universities. State education officials claimed that the intention was to give colleges more flexibility, while faculty unions were concerned that the proposal was “educationally unsound.”