One thing that might help would be for surveys that rate colleges (like US News & World Report's annual ranking) to start tracking what portion of classes are a

One thing that might help would be for surveys that rate colleges (like US News & World Report's annual ranking) to start tracking what portion of classes are actually taught by research faculty. That is, after all, the distinctive factor of a university, the instruction not by teachers or practitioners but by research scholars. And those adjuncts aren't scholars, since they don't do research. At best, they're highly credentialed teachers.