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You're right. They say "professor with experience in her field." Which is what an adjunct provides when done right. Unfortunately enrollment is a big deal at
by bphogan 11y ago
You're right.
They say "professor with experience in her field."
Which is what an adjunct provides when done right.
Unfortunately enrollment is a big deal at schools, and sometimes more classes are offered than there are people to teach them.
And some adjuncts are simply just not qualified to teach anything because they have no experience that's relevant. Seen it too often in my time in public higher ed.
- SilasX 11y agoYeah, I think it would look different to prospective students and their parents if they were explicitly told, "you will be taught by a barely-scraping-by post doc who won't be devoting her full attention to the class because she's panicking about whether her food stamp application will go through".