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Adjuncts aren’t university professors. They’re part time teaching staff. Anyone who cobbles together enough part time hours to theoretically be working full tim

Adjuncts aren’t university professors. They’re part time teaching staff. Anyone who cobbles together enough part time hours to theoretically be working full time is manfully struggling against admitting that they played the academic tournament and they lost. The system spat them out. Adjuncts bear about the same relation to professors as a doctoral student teaching their own lecture course. No one is going to call them professors.

romwell 8y ago
>Adjuncts aren’t university professors I know what adjunct professors are, and you seem to forget that second part of the job title. >The system spat them out. Adjuncts are 3/4 of the said system. It's a very peculiar definition of "spitting out" that you seem to have. >they played the academic tournament and they lost When 3/4 of a system are "losers", we should call that system a pyramid scheme, and refer to those people as "exploited victims". >No one is going to call them professors. Their students will. Although never mind. When academia is a "tournament" where instruction is done by the "losers", at least we should make it clear to the students that it is the case. Something tells me "75% of your classes are taught by losers!" won't make for a nice marketing slogan though.