Editorial: Colleges’ overreliance on adjunct faculty is bad for students, instructors and academic freedom
by The Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
Nov 29, 2021
3 minutes
The era of college courses taught mostly by tenured professors, who spend time on research and scholarly pursuits in addition to teaching, has been fading fast. Increasingly, the work of instructing students now rests with lecturers or adjuncts — non-tenure-track faculty, almost always working part time for less money and with almost no job security.
In California, they’re often known as “freeway fliers” because they drive from one campus to another in order to patch together a mediocre full-time salary teaching one or two courses at several colleges and/or universities, usually without benefits.
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